Social Studies Reconstruction Test: Most Important Terms

Question 1

13th Amendment

Answer 1

An amendment that ended slavery in the United States

Question 2

14th Amendment

Answer 2

This amendment made all people born in the U.S. citizens, regardless of previous condition of slavery. It also guaranteed equal protection under the law and prohibited States from denying a citizen his rights without due process of law

Question 3

15th Amendment

Answer 3

This Amendment granted African-Americans the right to vote

Question 4

What were Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 4

Laws passed once Reconstruction ended that enforced segregation in public facilities

Question 5

What were Black Codes?

Answer 5

Laws passed in the beginning of Reconstruction that attempted to tie African-Americans to the land, and limit their rights

Question 6

What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

Answer 6

Granted citizenship to African Americans and granted the federal government the power to intervene in state affairs to protect blacks’ civil rights

Question 7

What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?

Answer 7

This government agency was established to help African-Americans and poor whites find jobs, get food, medical care, and provide schooling