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U.S. History Week 16
The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
I designed a quiz related to chapter 16 at the bottom of this article.
Directions for the quiz:
- Scroll down & click on the first thumbnail to enlarge to full screen.
- Choose an answer for each question.
- Click on the graphic to advance to the next screen.
- The correct answer is on the screen following the question.
- Compare your answers with those provided.
- If you cannot easily see the correct answer, check the captions.
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Review the following Chapter 16 pages:
- Introduction
- Restoring the Union
- Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865-1866
- Radical Reconstruction, 1867-1872
- The Collapse of Reconstruction
- Key Terms
- Summary
Practice learning Chapter 16 Key Terms on Quizlet.
Week 16 Videos:
- Three Reconstruction Plans (15:20)
- Lincoln’s Assassination Devastates the Nation (15:49)
- The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (4:15)
- Crash Course: Equal Protection (14th Amendment) (8:15)
- History Channel: The 15th Amendment (1:50)
- Crash Course: Reconstruction and 1876 (12:59)
- Crash Course: Reconstruction Black American History (13:58)
Review the following information featuring the U.S.:
- Missouri (7:21)
- Montana (6:12)
- Benjamin Harrison: Cold Man in the White House
- Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison: White House Artist
- William McKinley: The Carnation Story
- Ida Saxton McKinley’s Slippers
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U.S. History Week 16 The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877 |
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In 1863, Lincoln proposed __% of the rebel states’ voting population take an oath of future allegiance. Answer choices include: 10, 25, 50, 100 |
The correct answer is 10. |
Which constitutional amendment abolished slavery? Answer choices include: 1, 5, 9, 13 |
The correct answer is 13. |
How did President Abraham Lincoln die? Answer choices include: He died of food poisoning. He was shot in a theater. He fell off a horse & broke his neck. He died of pneumonia. |
The correct answer is: He was shot in a theater. |
In the U.S., a celebration called ___ marks the end of slavery & is celebrated on June 19 annually. Answer choices include: Martin Luther King Jr Birthday, Juneteenth, Memorial Day, Independence Day |
The correct answer is Juneteenth. |
The correct answer is: He fought for formerly enslaved people to vote. |
The Freedman’s Bureau provided assistance to people in the South through __. Answer choices include: establishing public schools, help with gaining labor contracts, food deliveries, all of these |
The correct answer is all of these. |
Discriminatory policies focused on White supremacy abounded in the South and were called ___. Answer choices include: Brown Codes, Supreme Codes, White Codes, Black Codes |
The correct answer is Black Codes. |
Which former Confederate state ratified the 14th Amendment in 1866? Answer choices include: Alabama, Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana |
The correct answer is Tennessee. |
President Johnson’s use of vetoes & opposition of Radical Republicans led Congress to try to ___ him. Answer choices include: impeach, convert, promote, assassinate |
The correct answer is impeach. |
The 15th Amendment left out issues related to ___. Answer choices include: race, previous condition of servitude, literacy tests & poll taxes, color |
The correct answer is literacy tests & poll taxes. |
In 1869, ___ took her claim that the 14th Amendment granted her the right to vote to the Supreme Court. Answer choices include: Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Virginia Minor |
The correct answer is Virginia Minor. |
In 1869, which territory granted female suffrage? Answer choices include: Colorado, Wyoming, Vermont, Kansas |
The correct answer is Wyoming. |
Political clubs, ___, provided information & mentors, campaigns, and helped build schools & churches. Answer choices include: Union Leagues, Confederate Leagues, Big Leagues, American Leagues |
The correct answer is Union Leagues. |
In 1869, freeborn ___ broke the color barrier when he was elected senator of Mississippi. Answer choices include: Hiram Revels, Charles Sumner, Benjamin Wade, Henry Wilson |
The correct answer is Hiram Revels. |
In the 1870s, how many members of the Congress (House of Representatives & Senate) were Black? Answer choices include: none, 3, 12, 17 |
The correct answer is 17. |
The presence of local African American political activity led to a new concern for the disadvantaged in the South. Answer choices include: true, false |
The correct answer is true. |
How were the new government programs funded that were particularly unwelcome in the South? Answer choices include: whiskey taxes, taxes, stamp taxes, land taxes, tariffs |
The correct answer is land taxes. |
The most noted domestic terror organization of the American Reconstruction era was the ___. Answer choices include: Taliban, Ku Klux Klan, al Quaeda, Hamas |
The correct answer is Ku Klux Klan. |
Southern landowners continued to dominate the wealth & limit economic development of generations through ____. Answer choices include: tenant farming, serfdom, excellent lease options, sharecropping |
The correct answer is sharecropping. |
The Compromise of 1877 was instituted when ___ became President, leading to the “Solid South.” Answer choices include: Samuel Tilden, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield |
The correct answer is Rutherford B. Hayes. |
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