Reconstruction Quiz

Question 1

What was the Freedmen's Bureau's greatest success?

Accepted Answer

Schools

Question 2

A system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools, in return for a part of the crops that they raise.

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Sharecropper

Question 3

Ended Reconstruction...included the withdrawal of federal troops from Southern states.

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Compromise of 1877

Question 4

Famous USA general who died during the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Accepted Answer

General George Custer

Question 5

What best describes Plessy v. Ferguson?

Accepted Answer

Part black man got arrested for sitting in white train car.

Question 6

Why did Andrew Johnson get impeached?

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All of the Above

Question 7

This individual lost the popular vote in the 1876 election but became president anyway due to the Compromise of 1877.

Accepted Answer

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 8

What best describes the Battle of Little Bighorn?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 9

The discriminatory laws passed throughout the post-Civil War South which severely restricted African American lives

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Black Codes

Question 10

This officially outlawed slavery.

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13th Amendment

Question 11

The president who favored the lenient Ten-Percent Plan for Reconstruction.

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Abraham Lincoln

Question 12

A white Southerner who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War.

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Scalawag

Question 13

Who became President after Andrew Johnson?

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Ulysses S. Grant

Question 14

Makes all persons born or naturalized in the United States - including former slaves citizens of this country.

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14th Amendment

Question 15

Political people who wanted to destroy the power of former slaveholders and to give full rights to black people.

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Radical Republicans

Question 16

Organization that used terrorist tactics in attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War.

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Ku Klux Klan

Question 17

What is the best Mexican restaurant in Birmingham and possibly the world?

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Los Amigos

Question 18

Famous OG chief for the Sioux tribe...led resistance against USA government

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Sitting Bull

Question 19

Ended the war between the US government and the Plains Indians

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Wounded Knee

Question 20

Lynching was...

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 21

A bill, passed in 1864 and vetoed by President Lincoln, that would have given Congress control of Reconstruction.

Accepted Answer

Wade-Davis Bill

Question 22

Stops the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because they have previously been slaves.

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15th Amendment

Question 23

A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War to make money or help slaves or both.

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Carpetbagger

Question 24

This plan split up the South into military districts until they accepted 14th amendment and allowed black people to vote

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Reconstruction Act of 1867

Question 25

A federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War.

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The Freedmen's Bureau

Question 26

Laws the promoted separation of the races in a racist and unfair way.

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Jim Crow Laws

Question 27

Supreme Court case that established the separate but equal doctrine.

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Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 28

What best describes the Battle of Little Bighorn?

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Natives won handily, killing all of the USA troops

Question 29

The period of that followed the Civil War, during which the defeated Confederate states were readmitted to the Union.

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction

Question 30

The 17th president of the United States, this individual was Vice President when Abraham Lincoln was shot.

Accepted Answer

Andrew Johnson

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