Reconstruction test

Question 1

What is an “abolitionist?

Answer 1

Someone who wants to get rid of slavery

Question 2

To “secede” is to–

Answer 2

to leave

Question 3

Which state was the first to secede from the Union?

Answer 3

South carolina

Question 4

What order gave freedom to slaves in the southern states?

Answer 4

The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 5

What was “Scott’s Great Snake” / The Anaconda Plan?

Answer 5

Military strategy

Question 6

What did the Confederacy use to fight the Union Blockade?

Answer 6

Confederate steamer/ blockade runners

Question 7

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 7

president

Question 8

Jefferson Davis

Answer 8

president

Question 9

Robert e Lee

Answer 9

confederate general

Question 10

Ulysses s grant

Answer 10

union general

Question 11

What was the first battle of the Civil War?

Answer 11

fort Sumter

Question 12

Who won the Battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 12

Union victory

Question 13

What happened at the Appomattox Courthouse?

Answer 13

General Robert E. Lee, commander of all Confederate forces, surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant.

Question 14

What is Juneteenth?

Answer 14

A day to show respect to feeded slaves

Question 15

What was reconstruction?

Answer 15

It was a period of time in which the United States was trying to bring the southern states back into full political participation in the Union, guaranteeing rights to former slaves and defining new relationships between African Americans and whites.

Question 16

What was Lincoln’s plan?

Answer 16

required that former Confederates take an oath pledging allegiance to the Union and accepting the end of slavery.

Question 17

What was Johnson’s plan?

Answer 17

gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.

Question 18

What was the Radical Republican’s plan?

Answer 18

The Radicals were known for their opposition to slavery,

Question 19

What was the 13th Amendment

Answer 19

freed slaves

Question 20

What was the 14th Amendment?

Answer 20

gave citizenship

Question 21

What was the 15th Amendment?

Answer 21

gave men the right to vote

Question 22

Who was a carpetbagger?

Answer 22

a derogatory term for an individual from the North who relocated to the South during the Reconstruction period (1865–77), following the American Civil War.

Question 23

Who was a scalawag?

Answer 23

A white southerner who supported the federal plan of reconstruction

Question 24

Who were the freedmen?

Answer 24

former African slaves emancipated during and after the American Civil War by the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment.

Question 25

What was created to try and help the newly freed slaves by providing food, clothing, education, and help finding jobs?

Answer 25

An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.

Question 26

What was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan and other intimidation groups?

Answer 26

The Klan’s goals included the political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern Blacks after the Civil War (1861-65).

Question 27

How did the compromise of 1877 lead to the end of Reconstruction?

Answer 27

It removed federal troops from the south

Question 28

In order to rejoin the United States, South Carolina had to rewrite a new __________________.

Answer 28

Constitution

Question 29

What were Jim Crow laws?

Answer 29

Laws that enforced segregation

Question 30

What was the name of the riot in a small town in South Carolina that erupted in violence as the community’s African American militia clashed with whites from the surrounding area?

Answer 30

Hamburg massacre

Question 31

What was the impact of the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v Ferguson?

Answer 31

It upheld state imposed jim crow laws

Question 32

What is the eight box law?

Answer 32

Voters had to put their ballot into the correct box or each position

Question 33

What is the grandfather clause?

Answer 33

You could vote if your grandfather or father could before the year of 1865

Question 34

What is a poll tax?

Answer 34

a fee to vote

Question 35

What is a literacy test?

Answer 35

A test designed to make it harder for African american to vote.

Question 36

What is gerrymandering?

Answer 36

Drawing boundaries to give one political party the advantage.