Reconstruction Quiz

Which Amendment states that anyone born in the United States is a citizen?

• 1st Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

When Lincoln was killed, he became president.

• Andrew Johnson

• Andrew Jackson

• Ulysses Grant

• Jefferson Davis

What name was given to a terrorist group that used violence to keep African-Americans from having equal rights in the South?

• Black Codes

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Radical Republicans

What agency was created to HELP former slaves and control abandoned plantation lands?

• The Ku Klux Klan

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• Radical Republicans

• The Homestead Agency

Which Amendment prohibits (ends) slavery in the United States?

• 2nd Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

How did the South restrict the rights of Freedmen during Reconstruction?

• Black Codes

• 13th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

Poll taxes and literacy tests were ways to PROMOTE African American involvement in politics.

• True

• False

What was the result of the "Plessy VS Ferguson" case in 1896?

• Segregation was okay as along as it was "separate but equal".

• Segregation was not okay and equality must be met.

• Segregation was okay as the separation of races are necessary in society, nothing need to be equal.

Andrew Johnson's Impeachment trial was found not guilty by one vote in the Senate. The vote was 35-19.

• True

• False

Who was President Johnson more supportive of during Reconstruction?

• The North

• The South