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WorksheetsCh. 18 - Reconstruction
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
This group was formed to help poor southerners with basic necessities.
a)
Freedmen's Bureau
b)
Wade-Davis Association
c)
Welfare
d)
Amnesty International
2.
Lincoln's view of Reconstruction is best described as
a)
lenient and forgiving
b)
harsh and strict
c)
slow and painful
d)
punishment but fair
3.
A Reconstruction plan by moderate Republicans is called the
a)
Wade-Davis Bill
b)
10% Plan
c)
Sumner Plan
d)
Reconstruction Act
4.
Radical Republicans are best described as
a)
Southerners who agreed with Lincoln's plan
b)
Northerners who wanted to punish the South
c)
anyone who disagreed with Johnson
d)
those who offered forgiveness to Confederates
5.
Why was Johnson impeached?
a)
he violated the Tenure of Office Act
b)
he knew about Booth's plan to kill Lincoln
c)
he was opposed to the 13th Amendment
d)
he was arrested for treason
6.
Laws passed to limit the freedom of blacks
a)
black codes
b)
segregation
c)
Confederate Codes
d)
redeemer laws
7.
What allowed African American men the right to vote?
a)
15th Amendment
b)
13th Amendment
c)
14th Amendment
d)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
8.
Who was responsible for dividing the South into military districts?
a)
Radical Republicans
b)
Andrew Johnson
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Southern Democrats
9.
Who are scalawags?
a)
white Southern Republicans
b)
Northern Democrats
c)
anyone who is racist
d)
newly freed slaves who vote
10.
Who are the Redeemers?
a)
Southern Democrats who helped end Reconstruction
b)
Southerners who supported Johnson
c)
abolitionists who helped newly freed slaves
d)
Republicans who helped with Reconstruction
11.
Northern Republican office holders in the South
a)
carpetbaggers
b)
redeemers
c)
scalawags
d)
radicals
12.
When did Reconstruction end?
a)
the Compromise of 1877
b)
the death of President Grant
c)
after the 15th Amendment
d)
the Panic of 1873
13.
Jim Crow laws
a)
kept blacks and whites separate in public places
b)
helped stop segregation in most southern states
c)
were passed to help blacks vote
d)
were supposed to stop discrimination
14.
Blacks were kept from voting by all of the following EXCEPT
a)
religious test
b)
poll tax
c)
grandfather clause
d)
literacy test
15.
Segregation means
a)
the forced separation of blacks and whites
b)
the forced separation of north and south
c)
the government can't stop people from voting
d)
racial equality
16.
The 13th Amedment
a)
gave all citizens the right to vote
b)
gave all slaves their freedom
c)
gave all citizens due process of law
d)
protected freedmen from discrimination
17.
What was the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?
a)
it ended segregation
b)
it made segregation legal
c)
it ruled against the Ku Klux Klan
d)
it declared the poll tax unconstitutional
18.
Which statement is FALSE concerning the Lincoln assassination?
a)
Booth was shot and four others were hanged.
b)
Booth fought in the war for the South.
c)
The VP and Sec. of State were also targets.
d)
Booth was an actor prior to the war.
19.
The 14th Amendment
a)
gave citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.
b)
gave all males the right to vote
c)
allowed freedmen to serve on a jury
d)
abolished slavery
20.
The MAIN goal of Reconstruction was to
a)
readmit Confederate states into the Union
b)
free all slaves in the South
c)
punish Confederate leaders
d)
keep Confederate states from joining the Union
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