Reconstruction Quiz

Question 1

Southern Homestead Act of 1866

Answer 1

Set aside 45 million acres of land in southern states to provide free farms for African Americans

Question 2

13th Amendment

Answer 2

Slavery is illegal.

Question 3

14th Amendemnt

Answer 3

African-Americans have equal protection under the law and citizenship

Question 4

15th Amendment

Answer 4

African-Americans could vote

Question 5

What were Southerners response to the 15th Amendment?

Answer 5

Southerners kept African-Americans from voting by instituting literacy tests and poll taxes

Question 5

What were Southerners response to the 15th Amendment?

Answer 5

Southerners kept African-Americans from voting by instituting literacy tests and poll taxes

Question 6

W.E.B. Du Bois

Answer 6

Founded the NAACP

Question 7

Carpetbaggers

Answer 7

White northerners who traveled to the South to help southern freedmen.

Question 8

What did the Freedmen’s Bureau (1865) provide?

Answer 8

Provided food for the former slaves
Provided shelter and clothing
Found work for them
Began their education

Question 9

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 9

Assassinated Lincoln while he was watching a play and was a southern sympathizer and thought Lincoln was a dictator

Question 10

Who became president?

Answer 10

Andrew Johnson

Question 11

Andrew Johnson’s presidency

Answer 11

-Congress plan was strict during Johnson’s presidency

Question 12

Black Codes

Answer 12

Regulations set by Southern states to promote white supremacy and control the freedmen.

Question 13

Sharecropping

Answer 13

Tenant farmers paid rent with a share of their crops
Appealed to croppers as it gave them somewhere to live and lands to work

Question 14

Tenure of Office Act

Answer 14

The President could not remove any officials without the Senate’s consent

Question 15

President Johnson’s Impeachment

Answer 15

Johnson removed Stanton so he was impeached from office

Question 16

Impeachment

Answer 16

Impeachment is the process of charging the president with a crime and putting them on trial

Question 17

Tactics of the KKK

Answer 17

KKK-Beating African-Americans, burning houses and lynchings

Question 18

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 18

• Becomes president after Andrew Johnson’s impeachment
  -Had great success as a general
  -Whiskey Ring-scandal in Grant’s administration

Question 19

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 19

Southern states create laws to segregate public spaces

Question 20

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 20

He refused to sit in the black railway carriage car, and Plessy was arrested for violating the “separate but equal” railroad accommodations.