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WorksheetsReconstruction Vocab
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War
a)
Amnesty
b)
Reconstruction
c)
13th Amendment
d)
Freedmen's Bureau
2.
Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan that offered a full pardon to all but a few Southerners involved in the war. Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the Constitution and agree to abolish slavery
a)
Anaconda Plan
b)
Pickett's Plan
c)
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
d)
Marshall Plan
3.
Lincoln’s VP who became President after assassination. He also believed in Reconstruction but was not strict on Southern states.
a)
Andrew Johnson
b)
Ulysses S. Grant
c)
Rutherford B. Hayes
d)
James A. Garfield
4.
Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War that limited the freedom of formerly enslaved people. African Americans could not own guns, meet after sunset, could be jailed if they were unemployed.
a)
Liberty Law
b)
Slave Codes
c)
Amendments
d)
Black Codes
5.
A federal agency set up in 1865 to help both whites and African Americans in the South
a)
Freedmen's Bureau
b)
NAACP
c)
HUD
d)
Ku Klux Klan
6.
A change in a bill or law
a)
Impeach
b)
Amendment
c)
A Big Change
d)
Modification
7.
Passed in 1865, the amendment outlawed slavery
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
8.
This amendment granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
9.
1870 constitutional amendment declaring that the right to vote cannot be denied because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
10.
Insulting nickname for a Northerner who went South after the Civil War
a)
Yankee
b)
Carpetbagger
c)
Blues
d)
Yank
11.
Law that gave Americans the right to sue anyone trying to restrict their constitutional rights
a)
Dred Scott Decision
b)
Constitutional Law
c)
Civil Rights Act of 1871
d)
All American Act
12.
A secret society of ex-Confederates who used intimidation to return political power to white men
a)
Freedom Riders
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
Freedmen's Bureau
d)
Radical Republicans
13.
To charge someone with wrongdoing
a)
Snitch
b)
Run 'n' go tell it
c)
Impeach
d)
Tattletale
14.
Incident in which Colonel George W. Kirk and his army of followers imprisoned men suspected to be members of the Ku Klux Klan
a)
Siege at Vicksburg
b)
Appomattox Courthouse
c)
Battle of Gettysburg
d)
Kirk-Holden War
15.
President who withdrew troops from Southern states after the nation was united
a)
Rutherford B. Hayes
b)
Ulysses S. Grant
c)
Andrew Johnson
d)
James A. Garfield
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