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Recontruction (Centerville)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Laws to create separate facilities and sections in schools, housing, theaters, and on trains.

a)

Radical Republicans

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

sharecropping

2.

A time period of great hope, incredible change, and rebuilding in the United States.

a)

Radical Republicans

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

sharecropping

3.

A system of landowners renting land to workers who were paid with a portion of crops.

a)

Radical Republicans

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

sharecropping

4.

Small, but powerful, group in Congress who wrote laws to protect the civil rights of African Americans.

a)

Radical Republicans

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

sharecropping

5.

This amendment gave African Americans their citizenship.

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Fourteenth Amendment

c)

Fifteenth Amendment

6.

This amendment abolished slavery.

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Fourteenth Amendment

c)

Fifteenth Amendment

7.

This amendment gave all men the right to vote.

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Fourteenth Amendment

c)

Fifteenth Amendment

8.

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

a)

a theater attendant who wanted segregated theaters

b)

an actor who supported the Confederacy

c)

a wounded soldier

d)

a senator who wanted to be the new President

9.

How did the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments affect African Americans after Reconstruction?

a)

African Americans were kept as slaves.

b)

African Americans had to sign pledges to obey the law.

c)

African Americans were given restrictions on what they could or could not do.

d)

African Americans were allowed freedoms that they had never had before.

10.

Why did Republicans in Congress want to impeach Andrew Johnson?

a)

They were angry because he had become President without being elected.

b)

They were angry about his attempt to block their laws.

c)

They wanted the Southern states to know that they had no support in the government.

d)

They thought that it would increase their chances of amending the constitution.

11.

What was the purpose of the Ku Klux Klan, during Reconstruction?

a)

to terrorize newly freed slaves and those who helped them

b)

to unite freed slaves and plantation owners

c)

to bring more scalawags to the South

d)

to help the northern soldiers

12.

What do these three items have in common - poll tax, literacy tests, and grandfather clause?

a)

They all made it difficult or impossible for African American men to vote.

b)

They all went into effect before the Civil War ended.

c)

They were all put in place by the Freedmen's Bureau.

d)

They were all approved by the federal government.

13.

Which of the following is NOT a benefit to the sharecropper?

a)

The sharecropper stayed in a circle of debt and wasn't able to save money to leave.

b)

The sharecropper received a cabin to live in.

c)

The sharecropper was given seeds to plant.

d)

The sharecropper was able to make a little money, unlike the slaves.

14.

After the Civil War, both President Johnson and Congress wanted to

a)

grant pardons to the Southern states.

b)

reunite the country.

c)

require loyalty oaths from Southerners.

d)

punish the Southern states.

15.

What did Jim Crow laws do?

a)

They reinforced segregation.

b)

They protected the voting rights of African American men.

c)

They outlawed the Ku Klux Klan.

d)

They created the sharecropping system.

16.

Which of the following is one of Reconstruction's successes?

a)

Jim Crow laws

b)

grandfather clauses

c)

sharecropping

d)

the Fifteenth Amendment

17.

The image above is an example of:

a)

Fourteenth Amendment

b)

subversive groups

c)

segregation

d)

scalawags

18.

Why did many Southerners dislike carpetbaggers?

a)

Southerners disliked carpertbaggers' positions in federal government.

b)

Carpetbaggers were Southerners who supported Reconstruction.

c)

Southerners disliked the taxes that carperbaggers imposed.

d)

Many Southerners viewed carpetbaggers as Northerners who took advantage of the devastation in the South to make money.

19.

Which of the following is NOT one of the ways the Freedman's Bureau helped Southerners?

a)

built schools and hospitals

b)

helped slaves escape from plantations

c)

provided a free education and hired teachers

d)

rebuilt roads and railroads

20.

How did the black codes impact the rights of African Americans?

a)

They allowed African American men to vote for the first time.

b)

They gave land to newly freed slaves to help them start a new life.

c)

They created segregated school, hospitals, and railroad cars.

d)

They denied African Americans rights such as voting and owning guns.