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Reconstruction

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
__________ was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre
a)
Jim Crow
b)
John Wilkes Booth
c)
Nathaniel Bedford Forest
d)
Andrew Johnson
2.
This groups insisted that the federal government protect the civil and social rights of newly freed African-Americans  and favored harsh treatment to the Confederate states.
a)
Carpetbaggers
b)
Scalawags
c)
Radical Republicans
d)
Klu Klux Klan
3.
___________ was the president sworn into office after Lincoln’s death. He would clash on ideas between the Radical Republicans on their ideas for reconstruction.
a)
Ulysses S. Grant
b)
Harry Truman
c)
Rutherford B. Hayes
d)
Andrew Johnson
4.
_____________ was a system where many African-Americans shared land between owners. The landowners would provide the land, tools. and supplies while workers provided the labor
a)
Sharecropping
b)
Black Codes
c)
Thirteenth Amendment
d)
Reconstruction Acts
5.
___________ Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans.
a)
Compromise of 1877
b)
Reconstruction Acts
c)
Black Codes
d)
The Freedmen’s Bureau
6.

______________ A secret society that opposes civil rights especially African Americans.

a)

Copperheads

b)

Carpetbaggers

c)

Scalawags

d)

Ku Klux Klan

7.
_________ was when the Democrats agreed to accept Rutherford B. Hayes’s victory in the 1876 presidential election. In return, they wanted all remaining federal troops to be removed from the South.
a)
Compromise of 1877
b)
Reconstruction Acts
c)
Sharecropping
d)
Black Codes
8.
_____________ This amendment made slavery illegal throughout the United States.
a)
First Amendment
b)
Thirteenth Amendment
c)
Fourteenth Amendment
d)
Fifteenth Amendment
9.
_________  granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
a)
First Amendment
b)
Thirteenth Amendment
c)
Fourteenth Amendment
d)
Fifteenth Amendment
10.
______________ gave African Americans the right to vote.
a)
First Amendment
b)
Thirteenth Amendment
c)
Fourteenth Amendment
d)
Fifteenth Amendment
11.
Which of the following was an agency not only for freed people and certain poor people, but white refugees as well?
a)
Freedmen's Bureau
b)
Black Codes
c)
Radical Republicans
d)
Klu Klux Klan
12.
The process of readmitting the former confederate states to the Union is which of the following
a)
Reconstruction
b)
Reconstruction Acts
c)
Freedmen's Bureau
d)
Jim Crow Law's
13.

_________was the Democrats agreed to accept Hayes’s victory. In return, they wanted all remaining federal troops removed from the South.

a)

Reconstruction Acts

b)

Compromise of 1877

c)

Radical Republicans

d)

Ten Percent Plan