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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
15th Amendment
B
14th Amendment
C
16th Amendment
D
13th Amendment
2) Which of the following is the loophole that exists in the 13th Amendment?
A
it allowed border states to keep slavery
B
it allows slavery as a punishment for a crime
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
leasing convicts to business owners
B
selling land to new farmers
C
selling cotton
D
building new railroads and telegraph lines
4) Why did crime rates increase in the South after the Civil War?
A
the people became more disrespectful
B
more police were hired
C
the population increased greatly
D
more minor offenses were classified as crimes
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
convict leasing
B
tenant farming
C
Jim Crow laws
D
sharecropping
6) What is lynching?
A
voting
B
public murder committed by a mob
C
renting farmland for cash
D
forcing someone into slavery
7) What were Jim Crow laws?
A
laws that prevented African Americans from marrying
B
segregation laws
C
laws that governed sharecropping
D
laws that allowed African American men to vote
8) What was the 1896 Supreme Court decision that declared that separate, but equal public facilities were legal?
A
Plessy v. Ferguson
B
The Dred Scott case
C
Marbury v. Madison
D
Brown v. Board of Education
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
KKK
C
Freedmen's Bureau
D
The 15th Amendment
10) Which Constitutional amendment granted former slaves citizenship and equal protection of the laws?
A
16th Amendment
B
15th Amendment
C
13th Amendment
D
14th Amendment
11) Which Constitutional amendment gave African American males the right to vote?
A
15th Amendment
B
13th Amendment
C
16th Amendment
D
14th Amendment
12) Which of the following were used to keep African Americans from voting?
A
violence
B
poll taxes
C
literacy tests
D
all of these
13) What were black codes?
A
laws that regulated sharecropping
B
laws that gave former slaves freedom of speech and the right to vote
C
laws that turned minor things, like unemployment, into crimes
D
laws that brought an end to Reconstruction
14) What brought an end to Reconstruction?
A
The 15th Amendment
B
A compromise made between Northerners and Southerners after the presidential election of 1876
C
The Freedmen's Bureau
D
The KKK
15) Who became U.S. President after Lincolns' assassination?
A
Rutherford Hayes
B
Samuel Tilden
C
Andrew Johnson
D
Ulysses S. Grant
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