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WorksheetsThe South During Reconstruction
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
For a short time, African Americans held the majority in the lower house of what state legislature?
North Carolina
South Carolina
Alabama
Kentucky
Scalawags were.
Slave owners who were pro-Union.
Non-Union slave owners.
Pro-Union business leaders and farmers who had not owned slaves.
Carpetbaggers who were pro-Union
Carpetbaggers is a term that referred to
dirty carpet that white southerners carried with them to the south.
Unwanted northerners who cleaned carpet.
Scalawags who traveled to the south looking for higher wages.
Cheap suitcases made of carpet fabric-what white southerners might have thought untrustworthy newcomers might carry.
Land owners rented land to______________. And they gave the owners a percentage of their crops.
Whites
Slaves
Sharecroppers and farmers
Klu Klux Klan
Most whites Southerners did not want African Americans to have more rights.
True
False
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.
True
False
Sharecropping was much better than slavery.
True
False
No Democrats or planters supported the Klan.
True
False
Most schools were integrated during reconstruction.
True
False
Bonus - What type of toys does Mr. Grant collect.
Video Games
Remote control cars
Action Figures
Legos
On the national level how many African Americans served in the House of Representatives between 1869 and 1880
18
25
16
40
Some carpetbagger's were dishonest people looking to take advantage of the South's difficulties.
True
False
Some white southerners supported Klu Klux Klan because they saw violence as a way to oppose Republican rule.
True
False
In the movie President Lincoln is trying to pass what amendment?
14th
15th
13th
16th
Who was the Radical Republican who openly supported Lincoln in the Movie.
Thaddeus Stevens
Stanton
Andrew Johnson
John Wilkes
