WorksheetsReconstruction
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the rebuilding in the South after the Civil War called?
a)
Rehashing
b)
Refurbishing
c)
Reconstruction
d)
Rebuilding
2.
What limited the physical and economic freedoms of African Americans immediately after the Civil War?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
JIm Crow Laws
c)
Black Codes
d)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
3.
Who came from the North to take advantage of Southerners during Reconstruction?
a)
Military officers
b)
Freedmen
c)
Southern soldiers
d)
Carpetbaggers
4.
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 state?
a)
Freedmen were not citizens but would have troops to protect them.
b)
Freedmen were citizens and there would be Northern troops to protect them
c)
Freedmen can vote
d)
Freedmen should work at the Freedmen's Bureau
5.
What helped give aid to former slaves?
a)
Freedmen's Life
b)
Freedmen's Office
c)
Freedmen's Closet
d)
Freedmen's Bureau
6.
Which group of people could hold public office?
a)
Former military officers
b)
African Americans
c)
Slave owners
d)
Carpetbaggers
7.
Which group of people could not hold public office during Reconstruction?
a)
African Americans
b)
Freedmen
c)
Southern military leaders
d)
Northern abolitionists
8.
Which amendment grants citizenship to people born in the U.S. and guarantees them equal protection under the law?
a)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
b)
13th Amendment
c)
14th Amendment
d)
15th Amendment
9.
Which amendment bans slavery?
a)
16th
b)
15th
c)
14th
d)
13th
10.
Which amendment ensures citizens the right to vote?
a)
14th Amendment
b)
15th Amendment
c)
16th Amendment
d)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
11.
Who had a Reconstruction plan that called for reconciliation?
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Robert E. Lee
d)
Abraham Lincoln
12.
Who thought that preserving the Union was more important than punishing the South?
a)
W.E.B. DuBois
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Frederick Douglass
13.
Who urged Southerners to reconcile even though some wanted to continue fighting?
a)
Robert E. Lee
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
Abraham Lincoln
14.
Who later became president of Washington College, which was then renamed after this person?
a)
W.E.B. DuBois
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Robert E. Lee
15.
Who fought for the adoption of Constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights?
a)
Robert E. Lee
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Booker T. Washington
16.
Who believed equality could be achieved through vocational education?
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
W.E.B. DuBois
17.
Who accepted social segregation and was very popular among white leaders?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
W.E.B. DuBois
d)
Booker T. Washington
18.
Who believed in full political, social and civil rights for African Americans?
a)
W.E.B. DuBois
b)
Booker T. Washington
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Abraham Lincoln
19.
What is racial segregation?
a)
Separation from family
b)
Separation based on religion
c)
Separation based on race
d)
Separation of Freedman's Bureau
20.
Which group became American citizens in 1924?
a)
African Americans
b)
American Indians
c)
American Canadians
d)
Americans
21.
What was the name of the Supreme Court case that made "separate but equal" legal?
a)
Plessy vs. Messy
b)
Plessy vs. Ferguson
c)
Bureau vs. Amendment
d)
Plessy vs. Robert E. Lee
22.
How were African American rights lost after Reconstruction ended?
a)
Through equality
b)
Through segregation
c)
Through Black Codes
d)
Through Jim Crow Laws
23.
Why did Reconstruction end?
a)
Because of a compromise over the election of 1876
b)
Because of segregation in 1877
c)
Because of federal troops
d)
Because of the need for more land
24.
When Reconstruction ended, what happened to the African Americans in the South?
a)
They all moved North.
b)
They all moved West.
c)
They were abandoned by the federal troops and had no protection.
d)
They voted in large numbers.
25.
Title?
a)
Freedmen Were Happy
b)
Freedmen had Problems
c)
No Escape from White Hate Groups
d)
Jim Crow Laws
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