Reconstruction Review

The period of time immediately after the Civil War where the Confederate States rejoined the Union. 

• Reconstruction
• Industrial Era
• Golden Age
• Great Depression

Who took the office of President after President Lincoln was assassinated?

• Andrew Jackson
• Andrew Johnson
• Andrew Livingston
• Andrew Young

What amendment abolished (ended) slavery?

• 12th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

The amendment that prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on his or her race.

• 12th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

The 14th amendment to the Constitution was the second of the "Reconstruction Amendments." What was the purpose of this amendment?

• to give African Americans the right to vote
• to give all Americans citizenship regardless of race 
• to abolish slavery
• 
  to officially terminate the government of the Confederate States of America

Which of the following men assassinated President Abraham Lincoln only two weeks after the Civil War ended?

• John Wilkes Booth
  
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Jim Crow 
• Robert E. Lee 

When racial groups are separated from one another, this is called _____________.

• segregation
• impeachment
• sharecropping

When farmers rented land in exchange for crops, this was known as ___________________.

• carpetbagging
• segregation
• sharecropping
• crop sharing 

The Freedmen's Bureau was made to 

• send runaway slaves back to the South
• Help former slaves and provided food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice
• Give voting rights to African American men
• none of these answers are correct 

Black Codes are 

• a coded language African Americans used  
• laws that told people what they could wear 
• Laws that restricted African American rights 
• Curfew laws for African Americans