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8th grade · Social Studies · Unit 9 of 9

Reconstruction

New rights, and rights rolled back

What your child practices

Reconstruction from 1865 to 1877: the Freedmen's Bureau, the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, Black officeholders, the violence that opposed them and how gains were later rolled back.

Washington State Learning Standards learning standard: H1.6-8.6; H4.6-8.3; C1.6-8.4 · Reconstruction, the 13th to 15th Amendments and the gap between ideals and reality

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Many Black men were elected to office during Reconstruction. What does this show?

    • The 15th Amendment opened politics to Black voters for a time
    • Only Northerners voted
    • Reconstruction failed immediately
    • Black men could not vote

  2. Question 2

    Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first Black…

    • Governor of Washington
    • US senator, in 1870
    • President
    • Supreme Court justice

  3. Question 3

    What happened to many Black Southerners' rights after Reconstruction ended?

    • They grew stronger
    • They were fully protected
    • They were taken away through poll taxes, literacy tests, violence and segregation
    • Nothing changed

  4. Question 4

    Sharecropping was a system where…

    • Crops were shared free
    • Farmers were paid high wages
    • Everyone owned land
    • Farmers worked land owned by others for a share of the crop, often staying in debt

  5. Question 5

    Black Codes passed in Southern states after the war…

    • Limited the freedom and rights of Black Americans
    • Ended segregation
    • Created schools
    • Gave Black Americans equal rights

  6. Question 6

    Why did some Southern states have to ratify the 14th Amendment?

    • The Supreme Court wrote it
    • It was optional
    • Congress required it before they could rejoin the Union
    • The president asked nicely

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