Week 15 Quiz

The fragment "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States" comes from which document?

Select one.

• The 15th Amendment
• The 14th Amendment
• The 13th Amendment
• The Emancipation Proclamation

The fragment "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude" comes from which document?

Select one.

• The 13th Amendment
• The 14th Amendment
• The 15th Amendment
• The Declaration of Independence

Which statement says what the 13th Amendment did?

Select one.

• It abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime.
• It made all persons born or naturalized in the United States citizens and barred states from denying due process or the equal protection of the laws.
• It gave women a constitutional right to vote on the same terms as men.
• It freed enslaved people only in the areas then in rebellion.

Which policy readmitted the Southern states on lenient terms under President Andrew Johnson?

Select one.

• Congressional Reconstruction
• Radical Reconstruction, led by Republicans in Congress
• Presidential Reconstruction
• Military Reconstruction, under the army's districts

True or false: the 14th Amendment barred denying the vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

True or false.

• True
• False

In what year did Reconstruction end?

Select one.

• 1870
• 1876
• 1877
• 1865

Which list puts these in order, earliest to latest: the 15th Amendment ratified, the end of Reconstruction, the 13th Amendment ratified, and the 14th Amendment ratified?

Select one.

• 13th Amendment ratified, 14th Amendment ratified, 15th Amendment ratified, end of Reconstruction
• 13th Amendment ratified, 14th Amendment ratified, end of Reconstruction, 15th Amendment ratified
• 14th Amendment ratified, 13th Amendment ratified, 15th Amendment ratified, end of Reconstruction
• 13th Amendment ratified, 15th Amendment ratified, 14th Amendment ratified, end of Reconstruction

The course reads the 14th Amendment as which type of document, and which host keeps the text it reads?

Select one.

• A presidential proclamation, kept by the Library of Congress
• A federal statute, kept by the Avalon Project
• A private letter, kept by Founders Online
• A constitutional amendment, kept by the National Archives

Select every statement that is true of Congressional Reconstruction as the course defines it.

Select every option that applies.

• It came from the Reconstruction Acts of 1867
• It followed Presidential Reconstruction rather than coming before it
• It began when the 15th Amendment was ratified
• It ended in 1865, before the 13th Amendment was ratified
• It was the same policy as Presidential Reconstruction under another name

The Constitution was signed in 1787, and the 14th Amendment to it was ratified in 1868. How many years apart are the two?

Select one.

• 80 years
• 81 years
• 82 years
• 91 years