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WorksheetsReconstruction Terms
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 3600secs
Name
Class
Date
1.
Laws passed in the South after Reconstruction enforcing the segregation of blacks and whites
a)
Amendment Process
b)
Citizen
c)
Jim Crow Laws
d)
Sharecropping
2.
A person who starts a new business, hoping to make a profit.
a)
Entrepreneur
b)
Bill of Rights
c)
Pittsburgh, PA
d)
Freedmen's Bureau
3.
A system of farming in which farmers rent land and pay the landowner with a share of the crops they raise.
a)
Freedmen's Bureau
b)
Constitution
c)
Ratify
d)
Sharecropping
4.
A written plan of government, that was adopted in 1789 and is the foundation of our national government.
a)
Citizen
b)
Constitution
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Sharecropping
5.
To approve or confirm
a)
Jim Crow Laws
b)
Due Process of Law
c)
Ratify
d)
Amendment Process
6.
Important man-made place located in the North
a)
Atlanta, GA
b)
Gettysburg, PA
c)
Pittsburgh, PA
d)
Savannah, GA
7.
A federal agency created in 1865 to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the South.
a)
13th Amendment
b)
Citizen
c)
Bill of Rights
d)
Freedmen's Bureau
8.
This amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery in 1865.
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Amendment Process
9.
A member of a country
a)
Ratify
b)
Entrepreneur
c)
Bill of Rights
d)
Citizen
10.
The amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1868, that gave African Americans citizenship and equal protection under the law.
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Amendment Process
11.
The period of rebuilding after the Civil War, during which the Southern states rejoined the Union.
a)
Civil War
b)
Reconstruction
c)
Amendment Process
d)
Bill of Rights
12.
The first ten amendments to the Constitution, ratified in 1790.
a)
Bill of Rights
b)
13th Amendment
c)
14th Amendment
d)
15th Amendment
13.
The legal requirement that states must respect all legal rights that are owed to a citizen.
a)
Jim Crow Laws
b)
Citizen's Rights
c)
Due Process of Law
d)
Entrepreneur
14.
This may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures
a)
Ratify
b)
Bill of Rights
c)
Due Process of Law
d)
Amendment Process
15.
The amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870, that gave male citizens of all races the right to vote.
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Bill of Rights
16.
Which amendment grants the right of freedom of speech?
a)
1st Amendment
b)
2nd Amendment
c)
5th Amendment
d)
7th Amendment
17.
Which amendment grants the right to bear arms or own a gun?
a)
1st Amendment
b)
2nd Amendment
c)
5th Amendment
d)
6th Amendment
18.
Which amendment grants the right to plead "the fifth" or decide not to testify against oneself ?
a)
1st Amendment
b)
2nd Amendment
c)
3rd Amendment
d)
5th Amendment
19.
Which amendment prohibits unreasonable searches of a person's property?
a)
2nd Amendment
b)
4th Amendment
c)
5th Amendment
d)
7th Amendment
20.
Which amendment grants the right to a trial by jury?
a)
5th Amendment
b)
6th Amendment
c)
7th Amendment
d)
8th Amendment
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