8th Grade Reconstruction Unit

Which of the following wanted to punish the Confederate states during Reconstruction?

• Radical Republicans

• Lincoln

• Johnson

• Jim Crow

President Johnson was impeached by:

• Senate

• House of Representatives

• Supreme Court

• Grant

Which of the following Amendments abolished slavery?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

In the Compromise of 1877, Hayes was elected President agreeing to:

• support the 15th amendment

• outlaw the Ku Klux Klan

• remove the last Union troops from the South

• allow Congress to impeach Johnson

Southern whites restricted the freedom of African Americans soon after the Civil War by using

• the federal courts

• congressional aid

• Freedman's Bureau

• Black Codes

Which best describes the economic situation of many African Americans in the South after the Civil War?

• Slavery was replaced by the cycle of poverty through sharecropping.

• Mining provided the best opportunities.

• Advances in technology brought an end to agricultural work.

• Opportunities in the South outnumbered those in the North.

What did the Supreme Court rule in "Plessy v. Ferguson"?

• Segregation is legal as the separate facilities are equal.

• Poll taxes and literacy tests were unconstitutional.

• Jim Crow laws were unconstitutional

• Sharecropping was a form of slave labor.

African Americans were provided with food, clothes and education during the Reconstruction by the:

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow

• 15th Amendment

• Freedman's Bureau

Southerners who supported the Reconstruction were known as

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Losers

• Jim Crows

What are "freedmen"?

• African Americans who were enslaved after the Civil War

• African Americans who moved to New York during the Civil War

• African Americans who were freed from slavery after the Civil War

• African Americans who worked as factory workers in the late 1700s