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Jeopardy: Reconstruction, Amendments, and People

Test your knowledge of Reconstruction, amendments, and key figures in US history with this Jeopardy-style quiz game. Can you give the correct questions to the provided answers? Play now and challenge yourself!

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Jeopardy: Reconstruction, Amendments, and People

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  1. Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. People Amendments Vocab Reconstruction Republicans or Democrats Misc. 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. President who issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, freeing slaves.

  5. Who is Abe Lincoln?

  6. President that held a lenient stance towards the South, he enjoyed vetoing Congressional legislation.

  7. Who is Andrew Johnson?

  8. Former Union General who became one of the weakest Presidents in US History.

  9. Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

  10. Pennsylvania Representative who led the Radical Republicans.

  11. Who is Thaddeus Stevens?

  12. Republican that became President by agreeing to withdraw federal troops from the South in 1877.

  13. Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?

  14. Freedom of Speech, Press, Assembly, Religion, and the Right to Petition.

  15. What is the 1st Amendment?

  16. Guarantees citizenship and equal protection under the law for African Americans.

  17. What is the 14th Amendment?

  18. Ended Slavery.

  19. What is the 13th Amendment?

  20. Gave African Americans the right to vote.

  21. What is the 15th Amendment?

  22. Outlawed the Poll Tax.

  23. What is the 24th Amendment?

  24. The right to vote

  25. What is suffrage?

  26. To grant pardon and forgiveness to a large group of people.

  27. What is amnesty?

  28. To charge a public official with crimes

  29. What is impeach?

  30. Taking money illegally for political reasons

  31. What is graft?

  32. Presidential veto by not signing a bill and letting a Congressional session expire

  33. What is a pocket veto?

  34. Former slaves that were in need of assistance following the Civil War

  35. Who were freedmen?

  36. Rallying cry of freedmen, desiring land and a fair start after years of slavery

  37. What was “40 acres and a mule”?

  38. Organization that was set-up to aid former slaves after the Civil War

  39. What was the Freedman’s Bureau?

  40. Derogatory name given to Northerners that came to the South in search of economic opportunity, public office, or ensuring equality

  41. Who were carpetbaggers?

  42. Derogatory name given to Southerners that supported the cause of Reconstruction

  43. Who are scalawags?

  44. Thaddeus Stevens

  45. What is Republican?

  46. Members of the Ku Klux Klan.

  47. What are Democrats?

  48. Party that wanted to limit the rights of African Americans and drive those blasted carpetbaggers out of the South.

  49. Who are Democrats?

  50. Party that wanted to control the South after the Civil War by ensuring equality for African Americans.

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