WorksheetsReconstruction and Cotton, Cattle, and Railroads
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The Period after the Civil War as known as _____________________________.
a)
Destruction
b)
Reconstruction
c)
Resolution
d)
Confliction
2.
Juneteenth gave freedom to who?
a)
Slave Owners
b)
Native Americans
c)
Slaves
d)
Mexicans living in Texas who stayed true to Mexico.
3.
The 13th Amendment did what?
a)
Gave people the right to vote
b)
Gave slaves citizenship
c)
Gave women the right to vote
d)
Gave slaves freedom
4.
What is a Freedman?
a)
a person who has been freed from slavery
b)
A person who has always been free
c)
A person who will never be free
d)
A person who ran away to be free
5.
Most Southern States accepted the 13th Amendment at the beginning.
a)
True
b)
False
6.
What were the “Black Codes”?
a)
Laws that said African Americans were first class citizens.
b)
Laws that said African Americans were second class citizens.
c)
Laws that gave people cheat codes to video games.
d)
Laws that said African Americans were not considered people.
7.
The Freedmen’s Bureau was created by Congress to help freeman by supplying food, shelter, medicine, and in many cases, jobs.
a)
True
b)
False
8.
What did the 14th Amendment do?
a)
Made all Freedman return to slavery
b)
Made all Freedman Citizens of Mexico
c)
Made all Freedman Citizens of Canada
d)
Made all Freedman Citizens of the United States
9.
Impeachment is a process where an elected official like the president can be removed from office.
a)
True
b)
False
10.
The 15th Amendment did what?
a)
gave the right to all men, regardless of race or color the right to vote.
b)
gave the right to all women, regardless of race or color the right to vote.
c)
gave the right to all men, regardless of race or color the right to run for office.
d)
gave the right to all men, regardless of race or color the right to run for office.
11.
When was Texas readmitted into the Union?
a)
March 9th, 1870
b)
April 8th, 1870
c)
March 8th, 1870
d)
April 9th, 1870
12.
Under the motto “Separate But Equal” southern states passed racist “Jim Crow” laws that segregated the races.
a)
True
b)
False
13.
Vaqueros are early Spanish Cowboys.
a)
True
b)
False
14.
Longhorns were a new breed of cattle that evolved after straying away from the mission or ranch.
a)
True
b)
False
15.
The first great cattle trail was the ____________ Trail?
a)
Chisholm
b)
Goodnight-Loving
c)
Western
d)
Dodge-City
16.
Which of these was not one of the Famous Texas Ranches?
a)
XIT Ranch
b)
JA Ranch
c)
King Ranch
d)
GM Ranch
17.
Why was cotton called King Cotton?
a)
Because it was gold in color
b)
Because it was grown by kings
c)
Because it was easiest to pick.
d)
Because it was the biggest cash crop
18.
Freedman would mostly:
a)
Tenant Farm
b)
Subsistence farming
c)
Work like slaves
d)
Sharecrop
19.
What created a huge improvement and growth in cotton production?
a)
The Cotton Gin
b)
The Tractor
c)
The Longhorn
d)
The Boll Weevil
20.
Which of these was NOT an effect of the railroad growth in Texas?
a)
Transportation is greatly improved.
b)
It pushed many farmers out of the state for other areas without trains.
c)
The cotton industry is reborn.
d)
Settlement and agriculture explodes in West Texas.
21.
Abraham Lincoln
a)
17th President of the United States.
b)
Southerners who supported the Union
c)
Elected governor of Texas in 1869
d)
16th President of United States who was assassinated
22.
Andrew Johnson
a)
17th President of the United States.
b)
Southerners who supported the Union
c)
Elected governor of Texas in 1869
d)
16th President of United States who was assassinated
23.
EJ Davis
a)
17th President of the United States.
b)
Southerners who supported the Union
c)
Elected governor of Texas in 1869
d)
16th President of United States who was assassinated
24.
Scalawags
a)
17th President of the United States.
b)
Southerners who supported the Union
c)
Elected governor of Texas in 1869
d)
16th President of United States who was assassinated
25.
John Wilkes Booth
a)
Killed 44 men by the time he went to prison in 1878.
b)
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln inside Ford Theatre
c)
Train and Bank robber killed near Round Rock, Texas
d)
17th President of the United States.
26.
Sam Bass
a)
Killed 44 men by the time he went to prison in 1878.
b)
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln inside Ford Theatre
c)
Train and Bank robber killed near Round Rock, Texas
d)
17th President of the United States.
27.
John Wesley Hardin
a)
Killed 44 men by the time he went to prison in 1878.
b)
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln inside Ford Theatre
c)
Train and Bank robber killed near Round Rock, Texas
d)
17th President of the United States.
28.
Ku Klux Klan
a)
Secret group that opposed African Americans and other Minorities
b)
Northerners who came to the South
c)
Group that tried to impeach President Andrew Johnson
d)
Southerners who supported the Union
29.
Radical Republicans
a)
Secret group that opposed African Americans and other Minorities
b)
Northerners who came to the South
c)
Group that tried to impeach President Andrew Johnson
d)
Southerners who supported the Union
30.
Carpetbaggers
a)
Secret group that opposed African Americans and other Minorities
b)
Northerners who came to the South
c)
Group that tried to impeach President Andrew Johnson
d)
Southerners who supported the Union
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