Reconstruction Quiz

Reconstruction Quiz

8th Grade

13 Qs

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Reconstruction Quiz

Reconstruction Quiz

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which group in Congress took control of Reconstruction and worked to expand civil rights?

Democrats

Redeemers

Radical Republicans

Scalawags

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which laws passed in the South placed limits on the rights of Black people and helped bring about the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment?

Enforcement Acts

Freedman’s Act

Civil Rights Act

Black codes

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did the Freedmen’s Bureau assist freedpeople and poor southerners after the Civil War?

by offering 40-acre plots of land

by building schools and colleges

by organizing mutual-aid societies

by setting up the sharecropping system

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What agricultural system kept many freedpeople trapped in a cycle of debt and poverty after the Civil War?

sharecropping

the plantation system

tenant farming

the apprentice system

5.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 2 pts

Write one letter in each blank to complete the sentence correctly. As part of the effort to reverse the accomplishments of Reconstruction, southern governments used ______ and ______ to prevent Black Americans from voting.

Poll taxes

Property taxes

Work contracts

Union dues

Literacy tests

6.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

Which of the following helped weaken northern support for Reconstruction? Choose the two correct answers.

Panic of 1873

Ku Klux Klan violence

Whiskey Ring scandal

Black codes

Enforcement Acts

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was one direct result of the Compromise of 1877?

Samuel Tilden became president of the United States.

The Republican Party lost control of the federal government.

All federal troops were removed from the South.

The Black codes became part of federal law.

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