WorksheetsReconstruction Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
Which amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States"?
13th
14th
15th
Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
13th
14th
15th
Which amendment states that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or previous servitude?
13th
14th
15th
Fill in the blank: The _______ provided food, clothing, and medicine to newly freed African Americans and Southerners in need after the Civil War.
Radical Republicans
Confederacy
Union
Freedmen's Bureau
True or False: Literacy rates among African Americans grew with the establishment of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) such as Howard University (the late Chadwick Boseman graduated from Howard University in 2000).
True
False
What did economic power mean to newly freed African Americans during Reconstruction in the South? Read the excerpt below to help you answer this question:
In "Tell Linkum Dat We Wants Land", Takaki states that "Blacks knew precisely what they needed to raise themselves from freedom to equality...more than education and voting rights, was economic power" (p. 131).
education
voting rights
landownership
none of the above
The following transaction between Polly and landowner Presley George highlights this system that crippled African Americans socially and economically by indebting them to the land they formerly worked on as slaves.
Jim Crow
segregation
sharecropping
Black Codes
Actor Michael William's great-great-grandfather William Murrell emerged from the ordeal of slavery unbowed by ______.
registering to vote
owning 100 acres of land
becoming an entrepreneur
All of the above
In the video, "The Legacies of Reconstruction", what event is considered the second American Reconstruction?
The Civil War
The Civil Rights Movement
The American Revolution
All of the above
In Bryan Stevenson's speech, "We Need to Talk About an Injustice", what injustice is he referring to?
the criminal justice system and how society treats the condemned and the incarcerated
the challenges and problems that humanity depends on
the legacy of Reconstruction
none of the above
