Reconstruction Era (Quiz)

What was the main goal of the Reconstruction Era?

• Rebuilding the US after the Civil War

• Rebuilding cities after an earthquake.

• Hurting the feelings of people who disagreed

• Constructing new ways of working

What was the purpose of the Black Codes after the Civil War?

• To provide services for newly freed African Americans

• To help African Americans exercise their rights

• To limit the rights of African Americans

• To help white farmers exercise their rights

What amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

• The 15th Amendment

• The 14th Amendment

• The 13th Amendment

• The 12th Amendment

Which workers in the South rented farms and paid rent with cash or crops?

• Tenant farmers

• Plantation owners

• Slaves

• Sharecroppers

This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...

• establish churches to provide aid in the Southern states.

• reunify the former Confederate States and to craft a plan to readmit them to the Union.

• establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.

• abolish former Confederate governments and to punish former Confederate leaders.

Who wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?

• Democrats
• Radical Republicans
• Scalawags
• Carpetbaggers

This Reconstruction plan said a state could rejoin if 10% of its population swore an oath of loyalty

• Lincoln's Plan
• Johnson's Plan
• Radical Republican's Plan
• Grant's Plan

Why did poor white people and freed African Americans get involved with sharecropping?

• They enjoyed farming.

• They wanted to become wealthy.

• They had little money to buy or rent land.

• They could have returned to plantations that needed workers.

Which group of people were known as Freedmen?

• African American slaves who ran away from their owners.

• Northern whites who came to form governments in the southern states.

• Southern whites who tried to frighten African Americans

• Slaves who were freed at the end of the Civil War.

What are Scalawag$?

• Southern whites who opposed Reconstruction

• Southern whites who supported the Reconstruction

• Southern slaves who wanted to make profit.

• Southern whites who supported the West for a profit.