WorksheetsTexas History C17 Reconstruction
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Juneteenth is a legal state holiday in Texas and the oldest-known observance commemorating the end of the Civil War.
a)
True
b)
False
2.
During the Reconstruction era, many immigrants settled in Texas because the state still had public lands available.
a)
True
b)
False
3.
Under Congressional Reconstruction, one requirement for Southern states to rejoin the Union was to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
a)
True
b)
False
4.
Reconstruction in Texas officially began in March 1870.
a)
True
b)
False
5.
The Democratic Republicans wanted much stricter requirements for the Southern states to rejoin the Union.
a)
True
b)
False
6.
The years from 1863 to 1874 are the Civil War and Reconstruction era of Texas history.
a)
True
b)
False
7.
President Abraham Lincoln offered a parole to all Southerners who were willing to swear an oath of loyalty to the United States.
a)
True
b)
False
8.
Under President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan, each state was required to nullify its act of secession.
a)
True
b)
False
9.
General Charles Griffin used the army and the Freedmen’s Bureau to register male Confederates to vote across the state.
a)
True
b)
False
10.
The Ku Klux Klan used violence and terror in an effort to prevent African Americans from voting.
a)
True
b)
False
11.
What is the era from 1861 to 1874 in Texas known as?
a)
the Presidential
Reconstruction era
b)
the Civil War and
Reconstruction era
c)
the Carpetbagger era
d)
the Civil War and
Republican era
12.
What did General Gordon Granger urge freedmen to do once they were free?
a)
search for their lost
family members and then emigrate to Africa
b)
continue to work for
their former slaveholders, but for pay
c)
move to Northern
industrial cities where there were many work opportunities
d)
sue their former
slaveholders for the wages they rightfully earned
13.
How did Texas's Constitution of 1866 fail to grant African Americans equal rights?
a)
It did not grant them
the right to own property.
b)
It did not grant them
the right to enter into contracts.
c)
It did not grant them
the right to hold public office.
d)
It did not grant them
the right to live freely.
14.
What did the Fifteenth Amendment do?
a)
abolished slavery and
involuntary servitude
b)
permitted Congress to
levy an income tax
c)
guaranteed African
American men the right to vote
d)
established the
election of U.S. senators by popular vote
15.
What was the main goal of Reconstruction?
a)
to integrate African
Americans fully into Southern society
b)
to ensure the South
paid off all its war debts
c)
to restore the South
to the Union as quickly as possible
d)
to establish Northern
control over the South
16.
Who did President Andrew Johnson appoint to lead Texas's provisional government in 1865?
a)
Andrew J. Hamilton
b)
Gordon Granger
c)
Charles Griffin
d)
Elisha Pease
17.
Which Texas state holiday celebrates the end of slavery?
a)
Good Friday
b)
Juneteenth
c)
San Jacinto Day
d)
Memorial Day
18.
Whose plan was President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan modeled after?
a)
the Radical
Republicans'
b)
Abraham Lincoln's
c)
the Democratic
Republican's
d)
Andrew Hamilton's
19.
Which of the following is an example of a black code?
a)
a secret symbol used
to signify stops on the Underground Railroad
b)
the 15th Amendment to
the United States Constitution
c)
a law prohibiting
African Americans from serving on juries
d)
a law granting
African Americans the right to hold public office
20.
What was one reason Radical Republicans were dissatisfied with President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction program?
a)
Former Confederate officials filled top state government posts in the South.
b)
The plan cost
Northern taxpayers too much money.
c)
Johnson's
requirements for Southern states to rejoin the Union were too strict.
d)
The plan gave too
much power to formerly enslaved people.
21.
set up by Congress to provide critical services to formerly enslaved people
a)
Reconstruction
b)
Congressional
Reconstruction
c)
Freedmen's Bureau
d)
Ku Klux Klan
22.
Northerners who moved to the South
a)
Ku Klux Klan
b)
carpetbaggers
c)
Freedmen's Bureau
d)
Reconstruction
23.
the era following the Civil War during which Southern states were restored to the Union
a)
Reconstruction
b)
Congressional
Reconstruction
c)
Freedmen's Bureau
d)
Ku Klux Klan
24.
used violence and terror to prevent African Americans from voting
a)
carpetbaggers
b)
Freedmen's Bureau
c)
Ku Klux Klan
d)
Congressional
Reconstruction
25.
divided the South into five military districts
a)
Reconstruction
b)
Congressional
Reconstruction
c)
Freedmen's Bureau
d)
Ku Klux Klan
26.
controlled the Fifth District, made up of Texas and Louisiana
a)
Andrew Johnson
b)
General Philip
Sheridan
c)
Charles Griffin
d)
Edmund J. Davis
27.
removed thousands of white, former Confederates from the voting rolls in Texas
a)
Richard Coke
b)
Edmund J. Davis
c)
Charles Griffin
d)
General Philip
Sheridan
28.
won the 1873 governor election on the promise of restoring Texas to the days before Radical Reconstruction
a)
General Philip
Sheridan
b)
Charles Griffin
c)
Edmund J. Davis
d)
Richard Coke
29.
took up the task of Reconstruction after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
a)
Andrew Johnson
b)
Charles Griffin
c)
Edmund J. Davis
d)
Richard Coke
30.
set up a system of free public schools in Texas
a)
Richard Coke
b)
Edmund J. Davis
c)
Andrew Johnson
d)
General Philip
Sheridan
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