Reconstruction Era Quiz

What were the years Reconstruction took place?

• 1845-1860

• 1865-1877

• 1870-1885

• 1861-1865

What did the 13th Amendment do?

• Granted citizenship to African Americans

• Abolished slavery in the United States

• Gave African American men the right to vote

• Allowed states to implement Black Codes

What did the 14th Amendment establish?

• Freedom of speech for all citizens

• Citizenship and equal protection under the law for all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.

• Voting rights for women

• The end of segregation in public schools

What did the 15th Amendment guarantee?

• Equal pay for equal work

• Citizenship for freed slaves

• Voting rights for African American men

• Education for all

What were Black Codes?

• Laws passed to protect freed African Americans' rights

• Laws that restricted the freedoms of African Americans

• Codes used by abolitionists to communicate secretly

• Guidelines for creating new state constitutions

What was sharecropping?

• A system where landowners shared profits equally with laborers

• A system that kept many freed African Americans economically dependent on landowners

• A method used to divide large plantations into smaller farms

• A way to encourage African Americans to migrate west

What was Abraham Lincoln’s 10% Plan?

• A plan requiring 10% of freedmen to vote in elections

• A requirement that 10% of voters in a Confederate state swear loyalty to the Union

What role did Abraham Lincoln play in Reconstruction?

• He served as a Union general during Reconstruction

• He proposed lenient policies to reunite the nation quickly

• He passed the Black Codes to control freedmen

• He opposed any amendments to the Constitution

Who were carpetbaggers?

• Northern Republicans who moved to the South during Reconstruction

• Southern Democrats who supported Reconstruction

• Freed slaves who established businesses in the South

• Confederate soldiers who fled to the North after the Civil War

What was NOT a main goal of Reconstruction?

• To rebuild Southern infrastructure and economy

• To reintegrate Southern states into the Union

• To expand the U.S. territory westward

• To redefine civil rights