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A quiz to test your knowledge on the aspects of Reconstruction and its impact on the United States.
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1
What was the most important contribution of the Freedman's Bureau?
provide African Americans with jobs
to abolish slavery
to establish over one thousand schools in the south
provide some protection from injustice
2
Who was the 16th President of the United States?
John Quincy Adams
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Andrew Johnson
3
What was the purpose of the Freedman's Bureau?
to help free slaves find their families
protect the rights of the freedman against the Black Codes
to create laws for free slaves
to make Congress rich
4
Who wanted at least 10% of southern states to pledge allegiance?
Andrew Johnson
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
5
What amendment abolished slavery in the United States and its territories?
1st amendment
13th amendment
15th amendment
14th amendment
6
Who used violence and threats to intimidate and scare African Americans?
Congress
Confederate Generals
Southerners
Freed slaves
7
Who wanted to locate family, establish churches and schools, claim citizenship, and own land?
African Americans
Southern whites
Northern states
Congress
8
Who advocated distribution of 'forty acres and a mule' to African American war refugees?
Congress
Abraham Lincoln
General Sherman
Andrew Johnson
9
To what document were the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments added?
Declaration of Independence
United States Constitution
Confederate States of American
Articles of the Confederation
10
What was the aim of the United States Congress during Reconstruction?
to organize military efforts
to keep all African Americans as slaves
to create the Constitution
to make sure that freed slaves would be free
11
Who became President after Lincoln was assassinated?
George Washington
Barack Obama
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Jackson
12
Who pushed confederate leaders out of their seats in Congress?
Southerners
Andrew Johnson
Congress
Abraham Lincoln
13
What was Abraham Lincoln's aim for reconstruction?
To preserve the Union and end the Civil War quickly
to persuade the northern states to adopt slavery
To abolish slavery
To surrender to the southern generals
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What were the aim of southerns during reconstruction?
to rally together for another war
to free all their slaves
to pay all their slaves minimum wage
to return their lives to normal without any changes
15
Which amendment gave citizenship and equal protection under the law to all African Americans.
13th amendment
15th amendment
14th amendment
2nd amendment
16
The term used by southern critics to discredit Congressional Reconstruction as radical.
What is Congressional Reconstruction?
What is Reconstruction Bureau?
What is Radical Reconstruction
What is Radical Party?
17
Who wanted to preserve the Union?
Congress
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
Southerners
18
Which amendment gave all male citizens the right to vote?
13th amendment
15th amendment
2nd amendment
14th amendment
19
What did Sharecropping allow African Americans and poor landless whites?
land
a share of the crop
a day of hard labor
equal pay
20
Freedmen and poor landless whites entered into these agreements with landowners?
What is sharecropping?
What is land ownership?
What is a partnership?
What is hard labor?
21
What branch of government passed the Freedman's Bureau?
Congress
House of Representatives
Treasury Department
President of the United States
22
What did the new Congressional Reconstruction policy require southern states to do?
sell all their property to the government
forced to recognize the 14th amendment by military districts
create their own laws
required all slaves to be free
23
What laws did southern states pass that limited the 13th amendment?
Red codes
Black codes
Blue codes
Yellow codes
