WorksheetsUS History: Reconstruction
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 2hrs 0mins
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Class
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1.
This Reconstruction plan said a state could rejoin if 10% of its population swore an oath of loyalty
a)
Lincoln's Plan
b)
Johnson's Plan
c)
Radical Republican's Plan
d)
Grant's Plan
2.
The amendment that prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on his or her race.
a)
12th Amendment
b)
13th Amendment
c)
14th Amendment
d)
15th Amendment
3.
What amendment abolished (ended) slavery?
a)
12th Amendment
b)
13th Amendment
c)
14th Amendment
d)
15th Amendment
4.
What name was given to a terrorist group that used violence to keep African-Americans from having equal rights in the South?
a)
Freedman's Bureau
b)
Black Codes
c)
Jim Crow Laws
d)
Ku Klux Klan
5.
President Johnson was impeached for violating what law?
a)
Tenure of Office Act
b)
1st Reconstruction Act
c)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
d)
14th Amendment
6.
System of work for freedmen that traded 50% of grown crops for the use of a house & land
a)
sharecropping
b)
40 acres & a mule
c)
tenant farming
d)
pastoralism
7.
Which term was used by Southerners to describe people that moved south to make money by taking advantage of the war-torn economy?
a)
scalawags
b)
sharecroppers
c)
social elite
d)
carpetbaggers
8.
Reconstruction was the process of
a)
rebuilding the South after the Civil War
b)
creating land zones for freedmen after the Civil War
c)
instituting Black Codes for former slaves
d)
eliminating the plantation economy in the South
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