Class 8014 Unit Test on Reconstruction

The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was known as

• The Renaissance
• The Gilded Age
• Reconstruction
• The Industrial Revolution

Even before the Civil War ended, President Lincoln worried about rebuilding the South. As early as 1863, Lincoln outlined a Reconstruction plan. What does the word reconstruction mean?

• Tear down
• Take over
• To rebuild
• To destroy

The military districts shown on the map were created during Reconstruction to

• create economic and social equality in the South.
• pay for the physical rebuilding of the South.
• move Native American Indians to reservations.
• govern the former Confederate states.

Why did the Radical Republicans in Congress oppose President Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?

• Lincoln called for the imprisonment of most Confederate leaders.
• Lincoln rejected the idea of harsh punishments for the South.
• Lincoln planned to keep Northern troops in the South after the war.
• Lincoln demanded immediate civil and political rights for formerly enslaved persons.

Following Reconstruction, the passage of Jim Crow laws in the South limited the effectiveness of

• the 14th and 15th amendments
• the Freedmen’s Bureau
• Black Codes
• tenant farming and sharecropping

Base your answers to the question on this discussion between speakers and on your knowledge of social studies. The constitutional amendments under discussion are the

• first and second
• fifth and tenth
• fourteenth and fifteenth
• twenty-first and twenty-second

The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments dealt with

• the presidency
• rights of the accused
• rights for African Americans
• readmission of Southern states

The following amendment

• gave former slaves land to begin farms
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• abolished slavery

Base your answer to the question on the image below and your knowledge of Social Studies. Which group is represented in the following drawing?

• The Ku Klux Klan
• Confederate Generals
• members of the Freedmen's Bureau
• Southern Democrats

How did the KKK react to the topic presented in this cartoon?