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Reconstruction 4th Grade

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

___________________ refers to the period of time after the Civil War when the Southern states were brought back into the Union.

a)

Westward Expansion

b)

American Revolution

c)

Reconstruction

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

2.

___________________ is an arrangement in which a person grows crops on someone else's land.

a)

Sharecropping

b)

Emancipation

c)

13th Amendment

d)

Slavery

3.

Which of the following was true for former slaves during Reconstruction?

a)

They could not vote.

b)

They often owned no land of their own and were uneducated.

c)

They had to pay new taxes.

d)

They had to live on reservations.

4.

Which organization started schools for African Americans after the Civil War?

a)

Sharecroppers

b)

The Confederacy

c)

Jim Crow

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

5.

Which of the following is true about the South after the Civil War?

a)

Southerns rejected slavery.

b)

Farms, businesses, and homes were in ruins.

c)

African Americans could easily run for political office.

d)

The South asked to rejoin the United States.

6.

What were Jim Crow Laws?

a)

Laws against slavery.

b)

Laws to help former slaves.

c)

Laws to keep blacks and whites apart.

d)

Laws for women's rights.

7.

Which of the following was true about sharecropping? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.

a)

It was a good way for former slaves to get rich quick.

b)

Former slaves were unable to afford their own land, so they rented pieces of land from their former owners.

c)

Plantation owners treated their former slaves very well.

d)

If the workers had a bad harvest, they went into debt.

8.

The Freedmen's Bureau was established in order to...

a)

Provide freed slaves with food, shelter, and medicine.

b)

Provide women with job opportunities.

c)

Help freed slaves with their sharecropping.

d)

Help the Southern states recover from the Civil War.

9.

Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

10.

Which amendment banned slavery in the United States?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

11.

Which amendment granted citizenship to former slaves?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th