Reconstruction US history UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
1. Andrew Johnson He was the 17th president of the US and he became president to Abraham Lincoln's
assassination.
2. Reconstruction The period after the civil war in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy
were brought back into the United States. The south was divided into military
districts.
3. Thaddeus Member of the US house of representatives and one of the leaders of the Radical
Stevens Republican faction. He was fierce opponent of slavery and discrimination against
African-Americans.
4. Wade-Davis Bill It was a bill that proposed for the reconstruction of the south written by two Radical
of 1864 Republicans.
5. Freedmen's Bu- Established in 1865 by congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the
reau south aftermath of the civil war.
6. Black Codes Were laws passed by southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. They
had the intent and the effect of restricting African-Americans' freedom.
7. 14th Amendment Granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the US".
8. 15th Amendment Granted African-American men the right to vote.
9. Scalawag A person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful
way; a rascal.
10. Carpetbagger A person from the northern states who went south after the Civil War to profit from
the Reconstruction.
11. Hiram Revels The 1st African-American senator.
12. Share Cropping A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tent to use the land in return
for a share for the crops produced on the land.
CORRECT Answers
1. Andrew Johnson He was the 17th president of the US and he became president to Abraham Lincoln's
assassination.
2. Reconstruction The period after the civil war in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy
were brought back into the United States. The south was divided into military
districts.
3. Thaddeus Member of the US house of representatives and one of the leaders of the Radical
Stevens Republican faction. He was fierce opponent of slavery and discrimination against
African-Americans.
4. Wade-Davis Bill It was a bill that proposed for the reconstruction of the south written by two Radical
of 1864 Republicans.
5. Freedmen's Bu- Established in 1865 by congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the
reau south aftermath of the civil war.
6. Black Codes Were laws passed by southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. They
had the intent and the effect of restricting African-Americans' freedom.
7. 14th Amendment Granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the US".
8. 15th Amendment Granted African-American men the right to vote.
9. Scalawag A person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful
way; a rascal.
10. Carpetbagger A person from the northern states who went south after the Civil War to profit from
the Reconstruction.
11. Hiram Revels The 1st African-American senator.
12. Share Cropping A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tent to use the land in return
for a share for the crops produced on the land.
