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Test your knowledge on the Reconstruction period with these twenty questions covering key events, figures, and laws. Learn about the Freedmen’s Bureau, impeachment of Andrew Johnson, military districts, voting restrictions, and more. Have fun while expanding your historical understanding!
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Twenty Questions Reconstruction Review
1. This was the group created to assist newly freed slaves. • The Freedmen’s Bureau
2. Who was impeached? • President Andrew Johnson
3. What was this region called due to the crop grown? • Hint: _____ Belt • The Cotton Belt
4. How many military districts were created during Reconstruction? • 5 Military Districts
5. Which Legislative branch votes to impeach and how many votes are needed? • House of Representatives • A majority
6. In Lincoln’s Plan how many had to pledge loyalty to be forgiven? • 10%
7. Name 2 ways African American men were kept from voting. • Poll Tax • Grandfather Clause • Reading Tests YES YOU HAD TO HAVE TWO TO GET A POINT
8. Which court case ruled that racial segregation was legal? • Plessy v. Ferguson
9. Which Amendment gave African American men the right to vote? • The 15th Amendment
10. Which Legislative branch holds an impeachment trial? • The Senate
11. Plessy v Ferguson made this legal. • Separate but equal
12. Who wrote special order #15? • William T. Sherman
13. What were Scalawags? • Southerners who supported Radical Reconstruction.
14. What amendment ended slavery? • The 13th Amendment
15. Which amendment was southern states required to adopt to be readmitted? • The 14th Amendment
16. What were Carpetbaggers? • Northerners who went to the south.
17. These were created to deny rights to ex-slaves. • Black codes
18. This was a secret society that violently opposed African Americans’ voting rights. • Ku Klux Klan
19. What was Special Order 15 also known as? • 40 Acres and a Mule
20. She was the conductor of the Underground Railroad. • Harriet Tubman