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Reconstruction Review
Test Description: Use this to review information from the Reconstruction era.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Which of the following Constitutional amendments abolished slavery?
A
16th Amendment
B
14th Amendment
C
13th Amendment
D
15th Amendment
2) Which of the following is the loophole that exists in the 13th Amendment?
A
it allows slavery as a punishment for a crime
B
it allowed border states to keep slavery
C
it allowed violence to keep former slaves from voting
D
it said that former slaves were U.S. citizens, but not citizens of the state in which they lived
3) Which of the following earned Southern states large amounts of money in the years following the Civil War?
A
selling cotton
B
building new railroads and telegraph lines
C
selling land to new farmers
D
leasing convicts to business owners
4) Why did crime rates increase in the South after the Civil War?
A
more police were hired
B
more minor offenses were classified as crimes
C
the people became more disrespectful
D
the population increased greatly
5) What was the new labor arrangement that developed in the South during Reconstruction in which the renter paid half or more of the harvested crop to the landowner?
A
tenant farming
B
convict leasing
C
sharecropping
D
Jim Crow laws
6) What is lynching?
A
forcing someone into slavery
B
voting
C
public murder committed by a mob
D
renting farmland for cash
7) What were Jim Crow laws?
A
laws that prevented African Americans from marrying
B
segregation laws
C
laws that allowed African American men to vote
D
laws that governed sharecropping
8) What was the 1896 Supreme Court decision that declared that separate, but equal public facilities were legal?
A
Brown v. Board of Education
B
The Dred Scott case
C
Plessy v. Ferguson
D
Marbury v. Madison
9) What was established by Congress in 1865 to provide food, clothing, medical care, and education to newly freed slaves and poor whites in the South?
A
The Compromise of 1877
B
Freedmen's Bureau
C
The 15th Amendment
D
KKK
10) Which Constitutional amendment granted former slaves citizenship and equal protection of the laws?
A
15th Amendment
B
13th Amendment
C
14th Amendment
D
16th Amendment
11) Which Constitutional amendment gave African American males the right to vote?
A
16th Amendment
B
14th Amendment
C
15th Amendment
D
13th Amendment
12) Which of the following were used to keep African Americans from voting?
A
literacy tests
B
poll taxes
C
all of these
D
violence
13) What were black codes?
A
laws that brought an end to Reconstruction
B
laws that regulated sharecropping
C
laws that turned minor things, like unemployment, into crimes
D
laws that gave former slaves freedom of speech and the right to vote
14) What brought an end to Reconstruction?
A
The KKK
B
The 15th Amendment
C
The Freedmen's Bureau
D
A compromise made between Northerners and Southerners after the presidential election of 1876
15) Who became U.S. President after Lincolns' assassination?
A
Rutherford Hayes
B
Ulysses S. Grant
C
Samuel Tilden
D
Andrew Johnson
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