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U.S. History Honors - CRM 1.2

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

System used on southern farms after the Civil War, similar to slavery.

a)

Black Codes

b)

Slash and Burn

c)

Crop Rotation

d)

Sharecropping

2.

Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after civil war and supported voting rights for freedmen.

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

Radical Republicans

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

d)

Southern Democrats

3.

State laws in the South that legalized segregation.

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Freedmen's Bureau

c)

Black Codes

d)

Dred Scott Decision

4.

Period when racism was at its worst after the Civil War, between the end of Reconstruction to the early 20th century.

a)

Radical Reconstruction

b)

Westward Expansion

c)

Nadir of Race Relations

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

5.

a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction, either through political or economic opportunities. Often a person perceived as an unscrupulous opportunist.

a)

Northern Opportunist

b)

Carpetbagger

c)

Sharecropper

d)

Northern Antagonizer

6.

A system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work. Legally, peonage was outlawed by Congress in 1867.

a)

Indentured servitude

b)

Institution of Slavery

c)

Debt servitude

d)

Debt Peonage

7.
Which term was used by Southerners to describe people that moved south to make money by taking advantage of the war-torn economy?

a)
scalawags
b)
sharecroppers
c)
social elite
d)
carpetbaggers
8.

What amnesty (pardon) plan required at least 10% of the voting population to take the loyalty oath before setting up a state government?

a)

Wade-Davis Bill

b)

Johnson's plan

c)

Stevens' plan

d)

Lincoln's plan

9.

As the leader of the New South movement, what was Henry Grady supporting?

a)

northern investment in southern industry

b)

blacks leaving the South to work in the North

c)

southerners growing more cotton for export

d)

southern investment in northern factories

10.

The name for the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.

a)

Colfax Massacre

b)

Freedmen's Bureau

c)

Confederates

d)

Ku Klux Klan

11.

What was the grandfather clause?

a)

Excused someone from a literacy test if their grandfather was able to vote before Reconstruction.

b)

 Enforced separation of races.

c)

Assessments that were once used to qualify someone to vote.

d)

A fee to vote.

12.

What was one of the results of Plessy v. Ferguson?

a)

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.

b)

The Supreme Court never made a ruling.

c)

The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.

d)

The case is still pending.

13.

Select the answer how the KKK tried to intimidate African-Americans and supporters of reconstruction.

a)

burning homes and churches

b)

cross burnings

c)

public lynchings

d)

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