WorksheetsCh. 17 Reconstruction and Its Aftermath 1865-1896
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
__________ assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
a)
Thaddeus Stevens
b)
Andrew Jackson
c)
Radical Republicans
d)
John Wilkes Boothe
2.
__________ was a leading Radical Republican.
a)
Thaddeus Stevens
b)
Andrew Jackson
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
John Wilkes Boothe
3.
If you are granted amnesty you receive a ____________.
a)
pardon
b)
restoration
c)
virtue
d)
reduced sentence
4.
________ are former enslaved persons.
a)
Bureaus
b)
Freedmen
c)
Yeoman
d)
Spirituals
5.
What did the thirteenth amendment provide?
a)
Freedom from Slavery in Border States
b)
Freedom from Slavery through the US
c)
The Right to Vote for African Americans
d)
It granted full citizenship to all individuals born in the US and prohibited states from denying constitutional privileges without due process of the law.
6.
Why did both Lincoln and the Radical Republicans exclude former Confederate officers from Reconstruction plans?
a)
The Confederates had nothing to do with reconstruction so why would they be included.
b)
They didn't want any military involved in the plans. This was about peace not war.
c)
They wanted to punish former Confederates as traitors.
d)
They wanted only citizens to be involved in plans.
7.
What services did the Freedmen's Bureau provide?
a)
It distributed food and clothing.
b)
It provided medical services and established schools.
c)
It helped people acquire land, provided transportation to jobs, and helped workers obtain fair wages.
d)
All of the Above
8.
Who succeeded Lincoln as president?
a)
Jefferson Davis
b)
Andrew Jackson
c)
James Buchanan
d)
Andrew Johnson
9.
How was the Fourteenth Amendment supposed to help African Americans?
a)
It freed the slaves in the entire US.
b)
It granted full citizenship to all individuals born in the US and prohibited states from denying constitutional privileges without due process of the law.
c)
It gave them the right to vote.
d)
It banned alcohol which eliminated a lot of the social problems they were facing.
10.
What right does the fifteenth amendment protect?
a)
Freedom from slavery in the United States.
b)
It granted full citizenship to all individuals born in the US and prohibited states from denying constitutional privileges without due process of the law.
c)
The right to vote for African Americans.
d)
The right to be free from the burden of alcohol.
11.
What verdict did the Senate reach in the trial of President Johnson?
a)
It did not have the votes to convict him and remove him from office. He was found not guilty. (Impeached but not convicted)
b)
He was found guilty and removed from office. (Impeached and convicted)
c)
The majority of the senate voted not to impeach him. He remained in office and there was no trial. (Not impeached, not convicted)
d)
He was not impeached but somehow was still removed from office. (Not impeached but convicted)
12.
What role did African Americans play in early reconstruction politics in the South?
a)
They were allowed to vote but still had no right to hold public office. While their voices were heard it was hard for them to enact change.
b)
They were allowed to hold public office but because they didn't have the right to vote no African Americans were elected.
c)
They were still fighting for the right to vote and could not hold public office. This was much the same as during and before the Civil War.
d)
They voted and served as elected officials in some southern states.
13.
What tactic did the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) use to influence elections in the South?
a)
It terrorized African Americans and other Republican voters to keep them from casting their votes.
b)
They attacked African Americans and burned crosses in their yards for any association with white people thus preventing them from exercising their rights.
c)
They supported Republican voters and supported them in preventing African Americans from casting their votes by any means necessary.
d)
The KKK was not founded till around the Civil Rights movement but other groups terrorized African Americans at this time.
14.
What Supreme Court decision upheld the legality of segregation so long as "separate but equal" facilities were provided?
a)
Brown vs. Board of Education
b)
Dread Scott vs. Sanford
c)
Plessy vs. Ferguson
d)
Marbury vs. Madison
15.
Why was a special commission needed to decide the presidential election of 1876?
a)
Because the South ignored the voting rights changes and did not allow all male citizens to vote.
b)
Because the ballots from three states were disputed.
c)
Because as a result of primitive technology two states were unaware of the election and did not get to cast votes.
d)
Because the ballot went out with an insignificant error on it making it potentially invalid.
16.
Some Southerners received ___________ after the war for swearing allegiance to the Union and renouncing secession.
a)
money
b)
threats
c)
poll taxes
d)
amnesty
17.
_______________ were laws passed by Southern states to control freed African Americans and allow plantation owners to exploit African American workers.
a)
Black Codes
b)
The Civil Rights Act of 1865
c)
The Compromise of 1877
d)
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
18.
The ___________, a fee charged by many Southern states at the polls, kept poor African Americans and whites from voting.
a)
grandfather clause
b)
literacy test
c)
poll tax
d)
none of the above
19.
_____________, or the separation of the races, was common in the South after the Civil War.
a)
Reconstruction
b)
Segregation
c)
Black Codes
d)
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
20.
If the Congress is unhappy with the actions of a president they may vote to _______________, or formally charge with wrongdoing.
a)
hold a trial
b)
convict
c)
charge
d)
impeach
21.
If the president vetoes a bill, Congress may vote to override and the bill will still become a law.
a)
True
b)
False
22.
What are two ways that Southerners violated Lincoln's plan for reconstruction?
a)
They burned their own buildings.
b)
The treated all Confederates as citizens and allowed them to vote even if they had not been pardoned.
c)
The Ku Klux Klan conducted lynchings and they opposed literacy tests/poll taxes.
d)
Former Confederate officials were chosen for congressional representatives and treatment of African Americans did not improve.
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