Worksheets18: The Reconstruction Era Test Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The period following the Civil War is known as _________.
a)
The Rebuilding Time
b)
Reconfiguration
c)
Reconstruction
d)
The Reinstating Time
2.
The 10% plan required ten percent of each states voters to swear loyalty to ________.
a)
The United States of America
b)
the Union
c)
the Confederacy
d)
Abraham Lincoln
3.
President Lincoln was assassinated while attending ______.
a)
a play
b)
a ball game
c)
a meeting
d)
a dinner
4.
The Wade- Davis Bill replaced the 10 Percent Plan
a)
True
b)
False
5.
Who was Blanche K. Bruce?
a)
African American Senator
b)
leader of the Ku Klux Klan
c)
agent for the Freedman's Bureau
6.
The word for dishonest or illegal use of authority.
a)
integration
b)
corruption
c)
violation
7.
Who were the Ku Klux Klan?
a)
a racist secret society
b)
an equality seeking society
c)
a traveling circus
8.
What did the Freedman's Bureau try to do?
a)
find housing for free slaves
b)
find jobs for free slaves
c)
find schools for free slaves
d)
all of these
9.
The word meaning racially diverse.
a)
integrated
b)
segregated
c)
interrogated
d)
subjugated
10.
Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln after he was assassinated?
a)
Andrew Johnson
b)
Ulysses S. Grant
c)
Rutherford B. Hayes
d)
John Wilkes Booth
11.
What did Congress pass to prevent the president from firing government officials without the Senate's approval?
a)
black codes
b)
Impeachment Act
c)
overrides
d)
Tenure of Office Act
12.
What did Andrew Johnson do when Congress did not approve his suspension of Edwin Stanton?
a)
demoted Stanton
b)
fired Stanton
c)
impeached Stanton
d)
resigned the presidency
13.
How did Congress react when Andrew Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act?
a)
demoted Johnson
b)
fired Johnson
c)
impeached Johnson
d)
supported Johnson
14.
Which of the following was a leading industry in the New South?
a)
dairy farming
b)
music
c)
printing
d)
textiles
15.
Black codes were laws designed to ___________.
a)
limit the freedom of newly free African Americans
b)
increase the freedom of newly free African Americans
16.
African American civil rights were violated through ______________.
a)
integration
b)
Exodusters
c)
poll tax
d)
Reconstruction
17.
Which amendment to the Constitution gave African Americans citizenship?
a)
1st Amendment
b)
13th Amendment
c)
14th Amendment
d)
15th Amendment
18.
Which earlier legislation was the 14th Amendment meant to protect?
a)
black codes
b)
1866 Civil Rights Act
c)
the Fugitive Slave Act
d)
the Radical Republican Act
19.
The 14th Amendment prohibits the government from taking _________________ without due process.
a)
life, liberty and property
b)
the right to bear arms
c)
freedom of speech
d)
right to assemble
20.
What were the requirements for states to rejoin the union under the Wade-Davis Bill?
a)
Majority had to swear loyalty to Union.
b)
State constitution must ban slavery
c)
Former Confederates could not hold government office
d)
All of these
21.
In what year did South Carolina and Georgia become the first states with African Americans members of Congress?
a)
1870
b)
1871
c)
1872
22.
In what year did Florida elect it's first African American member of Congress?
a)
1870
b)
1871
c)
1872
23.
During what period on the chart was African American membership in Congress the highest?
a)
1870-1873
b)
1871-1875
c)
1872-177
24.
Which state was most often represented by African Americans?
a)
Alabama
b)
South Carolina
c)
North Carolina
25.
What do you think was Reconstruction’s greatest success? What was its greatest failure? Explain your answers.
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