Reconstruction Era Quiz

Reconstruction

• The primary aim of Reconstruction was to rebuild the South after the Civil War and to integrate formerly enslaved people into American society.
• The 14th Amendment did not grant women the right to vote; it granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people.
• The Freedmen's Bureau aimed to help formerly enslaved people transition to freedom by providing food, clothing, shelter, education, and legal assistance.
• The Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation between the 1870s and 1960s.
• The Ku Klux Klan was primarily associated with the opposition to the rights of freedmen.

14th Amendment

• The 14th Amendment defined citizenship and granted equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
• The 14th Amendment also prohibited states from denying any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

15th Amendment

• The 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.

Freedmen's Bureau

• The Freedmen's Bureau was established to help formerly enslaved people transition to freedom.
• The Freedmen's Bureau provided food, clothing, shelter, education, and legal assistance to freedmen.

Jim Crow Laws

• The Jim Crow laws were a set of state and local laws enacted in the Southern and some border states of the United States between 1877 and the mid-1960s.
• The Jim Crow laws were designed to disenfranchise and segregate African Americans.

Carpetbaggers

• Carpetbaggers were Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War.
• They were often viewed negatively by Southerners, who believed that they were exploiting the South for their own gain.

Compromise of 1877

• The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction.
• It resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South, which effectively ended federal protection of African Americans' civil rights.

Lynching

• Lynching was a form of extrajudicial killing, typically by hanging, used to terrorize and control African Americans.
• Being a victim of lynching resulted in death and often involved horrific torture and mutilation.

Thaddeus Stevens

• Thaddeus Stevens was a Radical Republican who supported the rights of freedmen and opposed the lenient terms of Lincoln's 10% Plan.

10 % Plan

• The 10% Plan was President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction.
• It aimed to pardon Confederates who took an oath of allegiance to the United States and to allow Southern states to rejoin the Union once 10% of their voters had taken the oath.

Hiram Revels

• Hiram Revels was the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate.

KKK

• The KKK used terrorism to achieve their goals, including intimidation, violence, and murder.
• They targeted African Americans and white Republicans who supported their rights.