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Reconstruction

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 10mins

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1.

In this excerpt, President Hayes proposes a change in federal policy toward American Indians. Legislation based on this new policy did which of the following?

a)

Promoted individual land ownership among American Indians

b)

Forced white settlers to leave reservation lands

c)

Ended federal oversight of tribal governments

d)

Granted American Indians the right to attend public schools

2.

The measures in this list are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the-

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Fifteenth Amendment

c)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

d)

Fred Scott v. Sandford decision

3.

Which of the following best completes this list?

a)

Established schools

b)

Certified applications for political office

c)

Granted small-business loans

d)

Provided funds for farming supplies

4.

These reforms were instituted by-

a)

Governors during colonial era

b)

Reconstruction governments after the Civil War

c)

Patriots during the American Revolution

d)

Revivalists after the Second Great Awakening

5.

One effect of the Dawes Act was that it-

a)

Caused many American Indian tribes to create written constitutions

b)

Provided education to American Indians through locally run schools

c)

Limited the voting rights of American Indians

d)

Harmed the communal structure of American Indian society

6.

Many historians argue that the assassination of President Lincoln changed the course of Reconstruction. Which of the following is usually cited as an aspect of that change?

a)

Radical Republicans took control of Congress

b)

Congress imposed taxes on cotton imports to pay war debts

c)

The Thirteenth Amendment was approved by Congress

d)

Congress repealed legislation regulating railroad construction

7.

After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to-

a)

Punish plantation owners for the use of slavery

b)

Support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South

c)

Promote the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau

d)

Limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment

8.

Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?

a)

African American families divided by slavery were reunited

b)

Newly free men and women moved west to claim land

c)

African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election

d)

Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship

9.

Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?

a)

The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

The positions taken in the Know-Nothing Party platform

c)

The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War

d)

The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation

10.

What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

a)

Agricultural workers organized labor unions

b)

Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt

c)

Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses

d)

Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves

11.

Which of the following legislation was responsible for the provisions above?

a)

Morrill Act

b)

Homestead Act

c)

Sherman Antitrust Act

d)

Native American Act

12.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by-

a)

Providing them with voting rights

b)

Guaranteeing their freedom of speech

c)

Providing them with access to the court system

d)

Guaranteeing their permanent freedom from slavery

13.

The election of Hiram Rhodes Revels in 1870 was significant because he was the first African American to-

a)

Win an election as a member of the Democratic Party

b)

Win a majority of the popular vote in Mississippi

c)

Serve as a member of the U.S. Senate

d)

Run for public office in the South

14.

This list describes conditions found in-

a)

California following the Gold Rush

b)

Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812

c)

Western territories after the U.S.-Mexican War

d)

Southern states at the beginning of Reconstuction