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Reconstruction

Quiz by Stephanie Hahlen

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  • Q1
    Laws that kept African Americans from achieving full citizenship were known as
    The Freedmen's code
    The 14th Amendment
    The 13th Amendment
    The black codes
    30s
  • Q2
    The law that said freedmen were full citizens with the same rights as whites was known as
    The Civil Rights Amendment
    The Civil Rights Act of 1866
    The Freedmen's Act of 1866
    The 13th Amendment
    30s
  • Q3
    How did African American officeholders help African Americans achieve full citizenship?
    They increased freedmen's representation in the new government.
    They outlawed reconstruction.
    They abolished slavery.
    They passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
    30s
  • Q4
    Which act made it illegal to prevent another person from voting by bribery, force, or intimidation?
    The Black Codes Act
    The Civil Rights Act
    The Enforcement Act
    The Military Reconstruction Act
    30s
  • Q5
    The Jim Crow laws
    segregated democrats from republicans
    segregated blacks and whites
    segregated northerners and southerners
    segregated poor from the wealthy
    30s
  • Q6
    This amendment abolished slavery
    The 13th
    The 16th
    The 14th
    The 15th
    30s
  • Q7
    The act that declared new state governments in the former Confederacy had to be elected by both blacks and whites was called
    The Civil Rights Act
    The Military Reconstruction Act
    The Jim Crow Law Act
    The Enforcement Act
    30s
  • Q8
    The Fifteenth Amendment protected
    the right of women to vote
    the right of former Confederate officers to vote
    the right of black women to vote
    the right of African American males to vote
    30s
  • Q9
    Who led the South under President Johnson's Reconstruction plan?
    black Republicans
    federal troops
    Wealthy white planters
    carpetbaggers and scalawags
    30s
  • Q10
    Under Congressional Reconstruction, political power in the South shifted to
    former slaves and whites who had been loyal to the United States
    former Confederated leaders
    white southern Democrats
    the Ku Klux Klan
    30s
  • Q11
    During southern Reconstruction, blacks and whites in the South
    had to pay for children's schooling
    were granted equal rights.
    were taxed into poverty
    were segregated in public places
    30s
  • Q12
    Under Southern Reconstruction, new state constitutions
    denied blacks, the right to vote and segregated schools.
    guaranteed the right to vote to every adult male but left blacks imprisoned for their debts
    guaranteed the right to vote to every adult male, ended imprisonment for debt, and called for the establishment of public schools in the South.
    established new schools in the North for the children of freed black slaves and guaranteed the right to vote for all men and women.
    30s
  • Q13
    The secret society formed to drive African Americans out of political life was known as
    The Klan of Northern Republicans
    the Ku Klux Klan
    The Klan of Southern Democrates
    The Jim Crow Klan
    30s
  • Q14
    A poll tax was enforced during the reversal of Reconstruction in order to
    keep African Americans from being able to vote.
    raise money for the war torn South.
    keep carpetbaggers from being able to vote.
    give more money to the Republican party.
    30s
  • Q15
    Which statement is not true of the Compromise of 1877?
    It began with a disputed election
    It marked the end of Reconstruction
    It made Rutherford B Hayes president
    It sent more federal troops to the South
    30s

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