Reconstruction and Jim Crow Laws Quiz

Question 1

Ended slavery

Answer 1

Thirteenth Amendment

Question 2

Gave African Americans citizenship and equal protection of the law

Answer 2

Fourteenth Amendment

Question 3

Gave African Americans the right to vote

Answer 3

Fifteenth Ammendment

Question 4

White people pushing to help African Americans

Answer 4

Radical Republicans

Question 5

To remain president, Rutherford b. Hayes removed federal troop from the south when they accused him of cheating the vote, thus ending Reconstruction

Answer 5

Compromise of 1877

Question 6

Worked to feed and clothe war refugees and help formerly ensnared people

Answer 6

Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 7

Lynched, threatened, and killed African Americans - used violence to drive out carpetbaggers and African Americans - intimidated to keep from voting

Answer 7

Ku klux Klan

Question 8

People who didn’t have land/money would work on others land and in return kept some of the crops

Answer 8

Sharecropping

Question 9

The separation of two things (races)

Answer 9

Segregation

Question 10

Statutes enacted to force segregation

Answer 10

Jim Crow Laws

Question 11

Unlawful hanging - execution without trial

Answer 11

Lynch

Question 12

Protested lynching

Answer 12

Ida b. Wells

Question 13

Atlanta compromise - ho more fighting for civil rights, but focus on education and economical power - white people give African Americans jobs

Answer 13

Booker t. Washington

Question 14

Disagreed with the the Atlanta Compromise - don’t stop pushing for rights

Answer 14

W.E.D. DuBois

Question 15

Sat in a whites only dream car and refuse to move - arrested and convicted of breaking Louisiana’s segregation law

Answer 15

Homer Plessy

Question 16

How did the end of the Civil War affect the relationship between the federal government and the state governments?

Answer 16

Damaged it

Question 17

What happened to the role of African-Americans in southern politics during reconstruction?

Answer 17

They ran, they were elected, and they were really involved in politics

Question 18

What were examples of Jim Crow laws that were passed in the south specifically meant to keep blacks from voting?

Answer 18

Literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clause

Question 19

What strategy did Homer Plessy take to try to get the supreme court to declare the separate car act unconstitutional

Answer 19

Separate but equal - Legalized segregation 

Question 20

What decision was made by the Supreme Court case Pleasy vs. Ferguson?

Answer 20

The Supreme Court decided to uphold the Louisiana separation act - Separate but equal