Reconstruction Exam

Question 1

13th Amendment

Answer 1

The 13th amendment made slavery illegal everywhere in the United States.

Question 2

14th Amendment

Answer 2

Declared that all persons born in the U.S were citizens and required the States to respect the rights of all U.S citizens.

Question 3

15th Amendment

Answer 3

No denial of a vote based on race, color, or previous condition of enslavement.

Question 4

Dates of Reconstruction

Answer 4

1865 – 1877

Period of the north and south coming back together after the Civil War.

Question 5

Ten Percent Plan

Answer 5

It specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.

Question 6

Wade-Davis Bill

Answer 6

It required that a majority of a state’s prewar voters swear loyalty to the Union before the process of restoration could begin.

Question 7

Black Codes

Answer 7

Laws passed to restrict African American’s freedom, and of forcing them to work based on low wages or debt.

Question 8

Andrew Johnson and Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction

Answer 8

Lincoln’s plan:
1) He wanted to bring the North and South back together quickly and didn’t want to heavily penalize the South.

Johnson’s plan:

1) Pardon offered to Southerners who swore allegiance to the Union.
2) States required to abandon secession, abolish slavery, and renounce the confederate debt.
3) States could amend constitutions (no allegiance requirement).

Question 9

Scalawag

Answer 9

White southerner republican in the South.

Question 10

Carpetbagger

Answer 10

Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War,.

Question 11

Sharecropping

Answer 11

A practice where former slaves could rent land from a landowner and farm on it. They were able to keep some of the food. They had to give money or crops to the landowner because they were renting the land. It was like a cycle. They were never really able to make enough money.

Question 12

Women’s voting rights during Reconstruction

Answer 12

Women had no rights during reconstruction.

Question 13

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 13

An agency set up to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.

Question 14

Klu Klux Klan

Answer 14

A post-Civil War American secret society advocating white supremacy.

Question 15

How was governmental corruption exposed?

Answer 15

Governmental corruption was exposed through political cartoons.

Question 16

Thomas Nast/ political cartoons

Answer 16

He was known as the father of american political cartoons. They didn’t require the reader to read to understand news. “Worse Than Slavery” was one of Nast’s cartoons. He tried to send messages about society with his drawings.

Question 17

Good things that came out of reconstruction.

Answer 17

1) 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.

2) Public education in the South.

Question 18

Bad things that came out of reconstruction.

Answer 18

1) KKK and other groups.

2) Still lots of discrimination.

Question 19

Freedman

Answer 19

A slave who had been freed.