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WorksheetsReconstruction Pre-Assessment
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 4hrs 45mins
Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Jim Crow
John Wilkes Booth
Jefferson Davis
Who became the U.S. President after Abraham Lincoln was killed?
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Jefferson Davis
George McClellan
Which group blamed the South for the Civil War and wanted to punish them with government policy?
Dirty Democrats
Radical Republicans
Ku Klux Klan
Robber Barons
Which of the following abolished slavery throughout the United States?
14th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
15th Amendment
13th Amendment
Which Constitutional Amendment protected the rights of all men regardless of skin color?
15th Amendment
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
19th Amendment
Which Constitutional Amendment protected the right to vote of all men including freed slaves?
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
17th Amendment
14th Amendment
Most freed slaves in the south became which type of worker?
Indentured servant/Sharecropper
Industrial worker
Ship builder
Soldier
What are the Black Codes?
The nickname for the three Reconstruction Constitutional Amendments: 13, 14, and 15
A Federal Law creating jobs for free slaves
A set of laws enacted in the North to protect freed slaves
A set of laws enacted in the south to restrict the rights of freed slaves
What does the word Impeachment mean?
The process where charges are leveled against a high official of government
The process where an officer is removed from office
The process of presidential succession (who becomes the President if the President cannot continue to lead)
The process where states decide which Federal Laws to enforce
What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
Elect African-Americans as government representatives
Secretly continue slavery in the south
Provide aid to former slaves
Move the former slaves onto reservations - much like Native American removal
Did literacy tests help or hurt the slaves in achieving their right to vote?
Help
Hurt
What does the term Carpetbagger mean?
A person who moves from the South to the North in order to profit from Reconstruction
A Presidential candidate who cheats in order to be elected
A person who moves from the North to the South in order to profit from Reconstruction
A person who carries carpets in a bag to sell
What did Jim Crow Laws accomplish?
Made corporate monopolies illegal
Made it easier for military officials to win the Presidency
Helped the North hold the South accountable for the Civil War
Segregation of people depending on the color of their skin
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
A group that still exists today
A group formed to intimidate and hurt freed slaves
The group responsible for trying to get Martin Luther King Jr. to stop leading the Civil Rights Movement
All of the Above
Who became the President after Andrew Johnson?
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ulysses S. Grant
