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WorksheetsReconstruction Test Review
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 16mins
The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution...
guarantees African Americans free speech
Outlawed slavery in the United States
gave African Americans the right to vote
rejoined the South and the North
The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution...
Gave African Americans citizenship
Gave African Americans the right to vote
Freed the slaves
Gave landowners the right to sharecrop
The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution...
Gave African Americans the right to own businesses
Freed the Slaves
Gave African Americans the right to vote
Forced African Americans back into slavery
Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?
Nathan Bedford Forrest
John Wilkes Booth
Henry Clay
John Breckinridge
Northerners who went south after the Civil War to make large profits from the destruction in the south were called
Scalawags
Ku Klux Klan
Carpetbaggers
Sharecroppers
What group in Congress felt that Lincoln's plan was too lenient?
Deciduous Democrats
Radical Republicans
Wistful Whigs
Fancy Federalists
Which of the following definitions apply to “impeach”?
To remove an official from office
To charge an official with a crime.
To arrest an official for crimes.
To put an official on trial for “mis-behavior in the White House”
These were laws that made it illegal for African Americans to live or work in certain areas and allowed whites to arrest African Americans who were not working. Once arrested they would be forced to work for white landowners.
Freedman's Bureau
Reconstruction
Black Codes
Jim Crow Laws
Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was known as:
Wade-Davis Bill
14th Amendment
Ten Percent Plan
Radical Republican Reunification
A secret society that used terror to deny African Americans their rights
Ku Klux Klan
Plessy vs Ferguson
Reconstruction
Black Codes
What are some things done by the Freedman’s Bureau?
They distributed food to the poor and supervised contracts
They established schools and provided legal help for the poor.
They provided supplies and medical services
All mentioned
What was the effect of African Americans being such a large voting group during Reconstruction
There was little effect due to the Poll Taxes
More Democrats were able to get elected
Some African Americans were elected to Congress
Jim Crow Laws were overturned
What was the overall goal of the Reconstruction Amendments (the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments)?
freedom of speech
freedom of cruel and unusual punishment
equal treatment for all American citizens
right to a speedy and fair trial
Strict punishment of Confederate veterans and financial assistance to African Americans were policies pushed by which of the following groups during Reconstruction?
moderate Democrats
radical Republicans
radical Democrats
moderate republicans
True/False: The federal government helped rebuild the physical destruction of the South caused by the Civil War.
True
False
The plantation owners did NOT lose their wealth after the Civil War
True
False
a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction
Carpetbagger
Scalawag
Radical Republican
Confederate
a white Southerner who worked with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit (traitor)
carpetbagger
scalwag
radical republican
confederate
Many of the men in the South were killed during the Civil War.
True
False
Small white farmers had to compete with Freedmen during the Reconstruction.
True
False
During the Reconstruction, came to the South as teachers, missionaries and entrepreneurs
Northern Immigrants
Small white farmers
Freedmen
Plantation owners
Were in an endless cycle of debt due to sharecropping
Northern immigrants
small white farmers
Plantation owners
Freedmen
A tenant farmer who gives a part of their crop as rent to the land owner; could not choose the crops they planted
Sharecropper
Tenant farmer
The term segregation means
to bring together all races
to share your crops
to separate all races
to allow whites access to the library
In 1866, what group formed in the South to fight against the rising influence of the newly freed slaves by using violence and intimidation tactics?
Ku Klux Klan
Neo-Nazis
Black Seperatists
Sons of the Confederacy
How did African Americans gain so much political power in South Carolina starting at the 1868 Constitutional Convention?
Whites were able to ignore the Reconstruction Amendments
Because whites boycotted, the majority of the delegates to the 1868 Constitutional Convention were African-Americans
White carpetbaggers and scalawags turned out in large numbers to vote against the constitution
The Republican party lost all of its power in state government
The “Red Shirts” were
Created by the freedmen to prove their political power and ability
The nickname for the immigration of many Russians during this time period
Southern Democrats who used intimidation tactics to get Wade Hampton III elected as SC Governor
Used by the Republicans to persuade people to vote for Daniel Chamberlain
The election of Wade Hampton III as governor in 1876 marked what turning point in South Carolina’s history?
end of elite rule in SC and the start of the Populist movement
end of Republican rule and return of Democrats to political power
atification of “Reconstruction Amendments” to protect rights of blacks
official end of slavery and the start of the Reconstruction Era
The Reconstruction Era finally ended in South Carolina when
Democrats gained control of U.S. Congress
the “Red Shirt” campaign for governor began
President Hayes withdrew federal troops from Columbia after becoming President
Ulysses S Grant was elected as President and sent troops to South Carolina
All of the following statements concerning the Republican Party during Reconstruction are TRUE EXCEPT:
They established public schools in South Carolina for the first time
They established social service programs in South Carolina and made public health care a concern for the state government for the first time
They had to fight corruption and bribery within their own party on a state and national level
They were never able to ensure the ability for African-Americans to participate in the political process
Supporters of Wade Hampton III referred to themselves as Redeemers because they claimed that they had “redeemed” the
black population in SC, which would still be slaves if they had not fought in Civil War
state from poverty and violence that existed during early 1800s
state from fraud and dishonesty of Republican party during Reconstruction
limitations of agriculture and were going to turn SC into a powerful industrial center
What was the purpose of the Jim Crow laws that existed in South Carolina during the late 19th century?
to protect religious freedom
to restrict the rights of African Americans
to promote construction of textile mills around the state
to help small farmers purchase new equipment
During the 1880s, poll taxes and literacy tests were added to the voting procedure in South Carolina for which of the following reasons?
To ensure that the educated people who tallied the votes were chosen and paid correctly
To keep corrupt individuals from tampering with the vote
To keep African Americans from registering to vote
To encourage people to take an active interest in the political campaigning before voting
Political leaders in South Carolina drafted a new state constitution of 1895. What was the biggest change in this constitution?
It called for separation of church and state
It introduced Jim Crow laws
It outlawed the practice of sharecropping
It legalized the construction of textile mills
In 1896, the controversial Supreme Court case known as Plessy v. Ferguson set the country back several decades because it said _______________ was okay.
segregation
prohibition
yellow journalism
slavery
Jim Crow laws regulated the way that the white population interacted with the African American community. They were designed to
separate the races
unite the races
ignore racial differences
equalize the races
What does the term "disenfranchise" mean?
To give someone the right to vote
To take away someone's right to vote
To offer someone a loan
Another word for GOAT.
Who is the nicest, smartest, most respectful person you've ever met?
Mr. Custard
Dr. Seuss
Batman
T-Pain
