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WorksheetsReconstruction Quiz
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
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Class
Date
1.
The time period of the rebuilding of the South is known as:
a)
Rebuilding
b)
Reconstruction
c)
segregation
d)
Black Codes
2.
Separating people of different races in public places is known as
a)
Black Codes
b)
freedmen
c)
segregation
d)
impeach
3.
Laws passed in the South meant to control freedmen were called:
a)
segregation
b)
impeach
c)
radical
d)
Black Codes
4.
To bring formal charges against a government official is known as
a)
impeach
b)
radical
c)
segregation
d)
arrest
5.
The person who assassinated Lincoln was
a)
John Wilkes Booth
b)
Andrew Johnson
c)
Lyndon B. Johnson
d)
Lee Harvey Oswald
6.
The person who won the Presidential Election of 1868 was
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Andrew Johnson
c)
Ulysses S Grant
d)
Teddy Roosevelt
7.
A character in a song but also the symbol of segregation in the South was
a)
Black Codes
b)
Jim Crow
c)
Ku Klux Klan
d)
Abraham Lincoln
8.
The organization that gave food, clothing, and education to freed slaves was known as
a)
Jim Crow Association
b)
Radical Reconstruction
c)
Ten Percent Plan
d)
Freedmen's Bureau
9.
Southerners that supported Republican policy were called ______by the former Confederates.
a)
carpetbaggers
b)
tea party members
c)
scalawags
d)
radicals
10.
Northerners who moved South after the war were sometimes called
a)
carpetbaggers
b)
tea party members
c)
scalawags
d)
radicals
11.
What did the 13th amendment do?
a)
gave African Americans the right to vote
b)
abolished slavery
c)
gave women the right to vote
d)
granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
12.
What Supreme Court case upheld Jim Crow laws and segregation in the South as long as it was "separate but equal"?
a)
Brown v. Board of Education
b)
Marbury v. Madison
c)
Jim Crow v. State of Mississippi
d)
Plessy v. Ferguson
13.
Which of the following was NOT a plan for Reconstruction?
a)
Radical Reconstruction
b)
Ten Percent Plan
c)
Wade Davis Bill
d)
Restoration Plan
14.
Why did the KKK terrorize and sometimes kill African Americans?
a)
to integrate the South
b)
to treat them equally
c)
to prevent them from using their rights or gaining new ones
d)
to protest the 21st amendment
15.
Which of the following was NOT a way Southerners tried to keep African Americans from voting
a)
poll tax
b)
literacy test
c)
grandfather clause
d)
blank ballots
16.
When and where was Lincoln shot?
a)
April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theater
b)
April 14, 1865 in his home
c)
March 17, 1865 at Ford's Theater
d)
he wasn't shot, he was stabbed
17.
By 1874, which political party had regained power
a)
democratic
b)
republican
c)
libertarian
d)
green
18.
What action of Johnson led the House of Reps to impeach him?
a)
He spent all the government budget on his own personal items
b)
He became a Republican without them knowing it
c)
He called them scalawags behind their backs
d)
He removed Stanton from office without approval from the Senate
19.
The biggest disappointment of Reconstruction was
a)
the KKK took over the South
b)
African Americans did not receive true freedom they deserved
c)
the entire South was never rebuilt
d)
there were no big disappointments
20.
John Wilkes Booth was captured but killed before his trial.
a)
true
b)
false
21.
What did the 15 Amendment do?
a)
gave African Americans the right to vote
b)
abolished slavery
c)
gave citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.
d)
forced schools to integrate
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