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The South During Reconstruction

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins

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Class
Date
1.

For a short time, African Americans held the majority in the lower house of what state legislature?

a)

North Carolina

b)

South Carolina

c)

Alabama

d)

Kentucky

2.

Scalawags were.

a)

Slave owners who were pro-Union.

b)

Non-Union slave owners.

c)

Pro-Union business leaders and farmers who had not owned slaves.

d)

Carpetbaggers who were pro-Union

3.

Carpetbaggers is a term that referred to

a)

dirty carpet that white southerners carried with them to the south.

b)

Unwanted northerners who cleaned carpet.

c)

Scalawags who traveled to the south looking for higher wages.

d)

Cheap suitcases made of carpet fabric-what white southerners might have thought untrustworthy newcomers might carry.

4.

Land owners rented land to______________. And they gave the owners a percentage of their crops.

a)

Whites

b)

Slaves

c)

Sharecroppers and farmers

d)

Klu Klux Klan

5.

Most whites Southerners did not want African Americans to have more rights.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

African Americans made gains in higher education in the south. Northerners set up academics in the south. These academics grew into a network of colleges and universities for African Americans.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Sharecropping was much better than slavery.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

No Democrats or planters supported the Klan.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Most schools were integrated during reconstruction.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Bonus - What type of toys does Mr. Grant collect.

a)

Video Games

b)

Remote control cars

c)

Action Figures

d)

Legos

11.

On the national level how many African Americans served in the House of Representatives between 1869 and 1880

a)

18

b)

25

c)

16

d)

40

12.

Some carpetbagger's were dishonest people looking to take advantage of the South's difficulties.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Some white southerners supported Klu Klux Klan because they saw violence as a way to oppose Republican rule.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

In the movie President Lincoln is trying to pass what amendment?

a)

14th

b)

15th

c)

13th

d)

16th

15.

Who was the Radical Republican who openly supported Lincoln in the Movie.

a)

Thaddeus Stevens

b)

Stanton

c)

Andrew Johnson

d)

John Wilkes