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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
13th Amendment
C
16th Amendment
D
14th 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 said that former slaves were U.S. citizens, but not citizens of the state in which they lived
C
it allowed border states to keep slavery
D
it allowed violence to keep former slaves from voting
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 population increased greatly
D
the people became more disrespectful
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
sharecropping
C
convict leasing
D
Jim Crow laws
6) What is lynching?
A
voting
B
forcing someone into slavery
C
renting farmland for cash
D
public murder committed by a mob
7) What were Jim Crow laws?
A
laws that allowed African American men to vote
B
laws that governed sharecropping
C
laws that prevented African Americans from marrying
D
segregation laws
8) What was the 1896 Supreme Court decision that declared that separate, but equal public facilities were legal?
A
Plessy v. Ferguson
B
Marbury v. Madison
C
The Dred Scott case
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
KKK
B
Freedmen's Bureau
C
The Compromise of 1877
D
The 15th Amendment
10) Which Constitutional amendment granted former slaves citizenship and equal protection of the laws?
A
15th Amendment
B
16th Amendment
C
13th Amendment
D
14th Amendment
11) Which Constitutional amendment gave African American males the right to vote?
A
13th Amendment
B
14th Amendment
C
16th Amendment
D
15th Amendment
12) Which of the following were used to keep African Americans from voting?
A
poll taxes
B
all of these
C
violence
D
literacy tests
13) What were black codes?
A
laws that turned minor things, like unemployment, into crimes
B
laws that gave former slaves freedom of speech and the right to vote
C
laws that brought an end to Reconstruction
D
laws that regulated sharecropping
14) What brought an end to Reconstruction?
A
A compromise made between Northerners and Southerners after the presidential election of 1876
B
The 15th Amendment
C
The KKK
D
The Freedmen's Bureau
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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