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WorksheetsReconstruction Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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Class
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1.
To receive a pardon under Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States and
a)
accept that slaves were now free.
b)
pay damages to the North.
c)
promise never to secede again.
d)
set up schools for freed people.
2.
President Johnson challenged the Tenure of Office Act by
a)
firing General Grant.
b)
firing Secretary of War Stanton.
c)
not replacing cabinet members.
d)
running for a third term as president.
3.
Originally, the goal of the Ku Klux Klan was to
a)
drive out all Northern influences and return to a plantation system in the South.
b)
drive out Union troops and regain control of the South for the Democratic Party.
c)
remove African Americans from public office.
d)
terrorize African American freed people to force them to move to the North.
4.
Democrats charged that using “sin taxes” to pay off bonds favored the rich because
a)
the poor who had owned bonds had already sold them to speculators.
b)
the rich could afford to own more bonds.
c)
the rich held most of the bonds and the poor paid most of these taxes.
d)
the rich were better able to pay the taxes.
5.
Which of the following happened during the Panic of 1873?
a)
businesses expanded
b)
small banks closed
c)
the stock market rose
d)
unemployment fell
6.
Reconstruction ended when
a)
federal troops were removed from the South.
b)
Hayes submitted a plan for the “New South.”
c)
Hayes was elected.
d)
industrialization began in the South.
7.
By late 1870, all of the former Confederate states had rejoined the Union under the
a)
Civil Rights Act.
b)
Congressional Reconstruction Plan.
c)
Tenure of Office Act.
d)
Wade-Davis Bill.
8.
as freed people followed his troops during the war, he reserved abandoned plantation land for their use
a)
Samuel Tilden
b)
William Belknap
c)
Horace Greeley
d)
William T. Sherman
9.
Radical Republican leader who said his followers wanted to “revolutionize Southern institutions, habits, and manners”
a)
Samuel Tilden
b)
William Belknap
c)
Horace Greeley
d)
Thaddeus Stevens
10.
lost the presidential election in the Compromise of 1877
a)
William Belknap
b)
Horace Greeley
c)
Samuel Tilden
d)
Andrew Johnson
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