Reconstruction Era - Assessment

1.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

This amendment abolished slavery

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

19th Amendment

2.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

This amendment stated anyone born in the United States is a citizen with equal rights.

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

19th Amendment

3.

Multiple Choice

20 sec

1 pt

This amendment gave African American men the right to vote

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

19th Amendment

4.

Multiple Choice

20 sec

1 pt

This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...

establish churches to provide aid in the Southern states.

reunify the former Confederate States and to craft a plan to readmit them to the Union.

establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.

abolish former Confederate governments and to punish former Confederate leaders.

5.

Multiple Select

2 mins

1 pt

Which of the following were challenges experienced by African Americans following the Civil War? (SELECT ALL THAT ARE CORRECT)

Racial terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan

Lack of a formal education or employment opportunities

Limitations of 13th Amendment freedoms through Black Codes

Enjoyment of civil rights and the ability to participate in the government through voting

6.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?

African American families divided by slavery were reunited

Newly free men and women moved west to claim land

African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election

Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship

7.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to -

punish plantation owners for the use of slavery

support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South

promote the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau

limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment

8.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to -

Establish legal requirements for the education of former slaves

Mandate fair labor contracts between African American workers and plantation owners

Abolish the institution of slavery

Protect the voting rights of African American men

9.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?

The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act

The positions taken int he Know-Nothing Party Platform

The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War

The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation

10.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

Agricultural workers organized labor unions

Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt

Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses

Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves

11.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

The abolitionist movement achieved its goal with the passage of which amendment?

Twelfth Amendment

Thirteenth Amendment

Fourteenth Amendment

Fifteenth Amendment

12.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by -

Providing them with voting rights

Guaranteeing their freedom of speech

Providing them with access to the court system

Guaranteeing their permanent freedom from slavery

13.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

This painting of a Missouri election was completed in 1852. Such scenes would look dramatically different after the -

Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment

Second Great Awakening

Emergence of Manifest Destiny

Expansion of the Factory System

14.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

The election of Hiram Rhodes Revels in 1870 was significant because he was the first African American to -

win an election as a member of the Democratic Party

win a majority of the popular vote in Mississippi

serve as a member of the U.S. Senate

run for public office in the South

15.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

"Black Codes was a name given to laws passed by southern governments established during the presidency of Andrew Johnson. These laws imposed severe restrictions on freedmen, such as prohibiting the right to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, and limiting their right to testify against white men. They were also forbidden from carrying weapons and working in certain occupations."

Southern states passed the codes described in this excerpt in order to -

limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments

Increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North

decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress

improve relations with the Democratic Party

16.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

Which of these describes a result of the Thirteenth Amendment?

African Americans in the north could vote

State governments were required to protect individual rights

Former Confederate officials were prohibited from holding elected office

African Americans in the South could freely move elsewhere

17.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

Poll Taxes

Literacy Tests

Grandfather Clauses

The measures in this list are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the -

Compromise of 1850

Fifteenth Amendment

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Dred Scott v. Sandford decision

18.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

Freedmen's Bureau:

Provided food, shelter, and clothing
Negotiated and enforced labor contracts
___________________

Which of the following best completes this list?

Established schools for African Americans

Certified applications for political office

Granted small-business loans

Provided funds for farming supplies

19.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

How did the Freedmen's Bureau most assist in the reconstruction of the South?

By dividing large plantations and redistributing the property to former slaves

By creating a militia to help enforce the voting rights of former slaves

By offering legal assistance and public schooling to former slaves

By petitioning the government to offer money to former slaves

20.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

This political cartoon comments on events that occurred during the -

Reconstruction Era

Age of Jackson

Second Great Awakening

Civil War

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