US History Reconstruction Test 2

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History Us Reconstruction (High School) High School (USA History, 9-12, AP) USA USA History Standards & AP

What is this test? for High School History (9-12, AP US History), USA — High School (USA History, 9-12, AP) level, USA.
For High School students (9-12) including AP History in the USA
Section: History Us Reconstruction (High School) · Education: High School · Part: History Us Reconstruction (High School) · Country: USA

Knowledge of history is essential for understanding the vast accumulation from past to present and for establishing cause-and-effect relationships among historical events.

This test will help you develop chronological thinking and prepare for history questions on your exams.

By solving this test of 20 questions, you can both test your knowledge and identify the topics you need to improve.

Question 1

Provide the definition of Compromise 1877:

A) Ended Reconstruction

B) Started war

C) New amendment

D) Trade deal

Question 2

What was Compromise 1877?

A) Started war

B) Ended Reconstruction

C) New amendment

D) Trade deal

Question 3

What was the Freedmen's Bureau?

A) Military unit

B) Political party

C) Helped freed slaves with food, schools

D) Bank

Question 4

What best defines the Civil Rights Act 1875?

A) Voting only

B) Farm aid

C) Tax law

D) Banned discrimination

Question 5

Which term means "Rebuild plus rights"?

A) its goal

B) the purpose of the 15th Amendment

C) the Freedmen's Bureau

D) the Ten Percent Plan

Question 6

Which group used terror to suppress Black vote?

A) Freedmen's Bureau

B) Ku Klux Klan

C) NAACP

D) Union League

Question 7

Which term means "Helped freed slaves with food, schools"?

A) Reconstruction (1865-1877)

B) the Ten Percent Plan

C) the Freedmen's Bureau

D) the purpose of the 15th Amendment

Question 8

Name impeached in 1868.

A) Abraham Lincoln

B) Rutherford Hayes

C) Ulysses Grant

D) Andrew Johnson

Question 9

Which term means "Granted citizenship to freed slaves"?

A) the Civil Rights Act of 1866

B) Reconstruction (1865-1877)

C) the Freedmen's Bureau

D) the Ten Percent Plan

Question 10

Provide the definition of the purpose of the 15th Amendment:

A) End slavery

B) Black men vote

C) Women vote

D) Citizenship

Question 11

What best defines Plessy 1896?

A) Desegregation

B) Busing approval

C) Separate equal rule

D) Prayer approval

Question 12

What was sharecropping?

A) mining

B) factory work

C) owning land

D) farming for a crop share

Question 13

Who was assassinated in 1865?

A) Abraham Lincoln

B) Jefferson Davis

C) Grant

D) Lee

Question 14

What was the Klan then?

A) Social club

B) Terror group 1866

C) Army unit

D) No group

Question 15

Who shot Lincoln?

A) Davis

B) Lee

C) John Wilkes Booth

D) Grant

Question 16

Who was president after Lincoln?

A) Grant

B) Seward

C) Stanton

D) Andrew Johnson

Question 17

What best defines the Klan then?

A) Terror group 1866

B) Social club

C) Army unit

D) No group

Question 18

Provide the definition of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896):

A) tax case

B) separate-but-equal doctrine

C) ends segregation

D) voting case

Question 19

What were Black Codes?

A) Laws for voting

B) Laws helping freed slaves

C) Laws limiting freed slaves

D) Laws for education

Question 20

Name the person who shot Lincoln.

A) Davis

B) Lee

C) Grant

D) John Wilkes Booth

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