Reconstruction Era Quiz Quiz Questions

1. Abraham Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan included which of these?

A Land confiscated from Southern planters should be distributed among formerly enslaved people. B Federal troops should occupy the Southern states until new governments were established. C All formerly enslaved people should be educated and allowed to vote in elections. D Southern states could form a government once one-tenth of its voters took a loyalty oath.

2. Which U.S. president began the era known as Presidential Reconstruction?

A Abraham Lincoln B James Buchanan C Ulysses S. Grant D Andrew Johnson

3. What were the laws that Southern governments enacted after the Civil War to restrict the economic freedom of African Americans?

A slave codes B segregation acts C Jim Crow laws D black codes

4. How did the Fourteenth Amendment change relations between the federal and state governments in the United States?

A It shifted the protection of citizens’ rights from the states to the federal government. B It gave the federal government the power to overturn state laws. C It enabled states to pass their own civil rights laws. D It gave states the power to veto federal laws.

5. Which political party controlled the governments of nearly all the former Confederate states when they were readmitted to the Union?

A Republican Party B Whig Party C Know-Nothing Party D Democratic Party

6. Which term describes Southern whites who supported Radical Reconstruction?

A carpetbaggers B freedmen C scalawags D New Southerners

7. Who made up the great majority of Republican voters in the Southern states during Reconstruction?

A African Americans B carpetbaggers C Ku Klux Klan members D scalawags

8. Which of these was not an accomplishment of Reconstruction governments?

A securing land grants for formerly enslaved people B making taxation more equitable C establishing the South’s first state-funded public school systems D outlawing racial discrimination in public transportation and accommodations

9. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution barred states from restricting the right to vote based on race?

A Thirteenth Amendment B Fourteenth Amendment C Sixteenth Amendment D Fifteenth Amendment

10. Which of these was not among the terms of the “bargain” that resolved the disputed U.S. presidential election of 1876?

A The president recognized Democratic control of the Southern states that still had Republican governments. B Federal troops were withdrawn from the South. C Rutherford B. Hayes became president. D All carpetbaggers were expelled from the Southern states.