Reconstruction Amendments Study Quiz

Establishing birth citizenship, equal protection under the law, and that all people are counted when determining representation in Congress are components of...

• the Thirteenth Amendment

• The Fourteenth Amendment

• The Fifteenth Amendment

• The Fifth Amendment

The Thirteenth Amendment protects people from...

• the violation of their voting rights

• unlawful search and seizure of property without due process or probable cause

• being denied rights and protection by state governments.

• none of the above.

Which group is excluded from the total population that determines representation in Congress?

• African-Americans

• Former Confederate political leaders

• Native Americans who do not pay taxes

• Recent Asian immigrants

The Fifteenth Amendment was enacted to prevent states from...

• putting people into slavery.

• electing former Confederate leaders to public office.

• passing laws that denied voting rights to people on the basis of race or color.

• excluding people from serving on juries or bearing witness at trials.

Slavery was officially outlawed in the Constitution by...

• The Thirteenth Amendment

• The Fourteenth Amendment

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Fifteenth Amendment

True or False: Under no circumstances may someone be put into involuntary servitude.

• True: The Thirteenth Amendment completely forbids this.

• False: The Thirteenth Amendment allows this if given as the sentence for the punishment of a crime.

• True. The Thirteenth Amendment says no one can be compelled to do any labor at all.

• False: The Thirteenth Amendment protects voting rights.

Currently the Supreme Court finds that compulsory military service is...

• not a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment.

• a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment

• a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment

• not a violation of the Fifteenth Amendment

Which amendment most clearly aimed to prevent former Confederate leaders from regaining power within the U.S. government?

• The Thirteenth

• The Fourteenth

• The Fifteenth

• The Nineteenth

While the Fifteenth Amendment says that a person may not be denied to vote based on his or her race or color, does it prevent states from enacting other qualifications to submit a vote?

• Yes, and it grants all state residents voting rights.

• No, the states were free to enact other restrictions on voting so long as they didn't affect one racial group more or less than any others.

• Yes, but it grants voting rights to only resident citizens and not resident aliens.

• Trick Question: The Fifteenth Amendment outlaws slavery and does not give voting rights.

Literacy tests and poll taxes enacted by states during the Reconstruction period after the Civil War were examples of...

• regulations designed to ensure educated and employed people were the ones able to vote

• legitimate means for states to offset the cost of holding elections by reducing voters and thus the time election staff and officials were needed to be paid.

• Black Codes used to disenfranchise black voters by circumventing the specific language of the Fifteenth Amendment

• regulations that were proposed but never enacted.