Reconstruction Test

1. Laws that made segregation of races in public legal were called

• black codes
• 13th Amendment
• Jim Crow Laws

2. A Southerner who sided with Radical Republicans and wanted rights for freedmen were called

• Scalawags
• Carpetbaggers
• Sharecroppers

3. Lincoln and Johnson wanted to give many Confederates ______, or pardon them

• impeach
• poll tax
• amnesty

4. Freedmen who were poor, were often kept from voting because they could not pay a ____________.

• literacy test
• grandfather clause
• poll tax

5. To bring formal charges against an elected official is the definition of

• amnesty
• impeach
• pardon

6. Which change occurred in Southern agriculture in the years following the Civil War?

• many former slaves became sharecroppers
• cotton production ended
• plantations brought back slavery

7. The term carpetbagger was used during Reconstruction to describe

• Southerners who supported Radical Republicans
• former slaves who worked on plantations
• Northerners who moved South seeking personal gain

8. During the Reconstruction Era, one reason for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was

• to prevent freedmen from exercising their rights
• to protect immigrants who purchased land in the south
• to encourage freedmen to vote

9. Punishing former Confederates and increasing rights for freedmen was the goal of

• Southern Democrats
• Radical Republicans
• Andrew Johnson

10. Slavery was officially banned by which amendment?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th