WorksheetsReconstruction
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 9mins
What amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteed equal protection of the laws?
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
12th Amendment
15th Amendment
This amendment made slavery illegal across the United States.
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
12th Amendment
15th Amendment
Which amendment gave all men the right to vote?
15th Amendment
12th Amendment
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
Which of the following was a goal Abraham Lincoln had for Reconstruction?
Give harsh punishments to Southerners
Avoid giving money to Southern States
Pass the 15th Amendment
Unite the country as quickly as possible
Which of the following was a goal Radical Republicans had for Reconstruction?
Ratify the 13th Amendment
Elect former Confederates to Congress
Sent the Army to the Southern states that were violating the civil rights of former slaves
Require Southern Landowners to ask for pardons
What is the difference between Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws?
They were basically the same.
Black Codes were meant to discriminate against African Americans while Jim Crow Laws were meant to segregate people based on race.
Jim Crow Laws came before Black Codes.
Black Codes were meant to segregate African Americans while Jim Crow Laws were meant to discriminate against people who weren't white.
Which of these is NOT true about the Freemen's Bureau?
Established 3,000 schools
Supported by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Provided medical care to former slaves and poor white southerners
It was vetoed by President Johnson twice
What is a system of farming where tenants rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner back with a certain amount of money they made from selling their crops or giving a share of their crops to the owner?
Sharecropping
Poll Taxes
Freedmen's Bureau
Crop Rotation
Why were former slaves willing to participate in sharecropping?
The 13th Amendment said that they had to sharecrop
The scalawags told them that they should become sharecroppers because they would get wealthy quickly
They thought that they would miss the landowners if they left
They knew how to do the work, it didn’t cost money to start, and it was more freedom than they had had before
Why was it difficult for former slaves and poor whites to stop sharecropping?
The KKK would not let them leave
The 14th amendment required them to work as a sharecropper
They were often in debt to the land owner, and were stuck working for them
Working as a sharecropper was a great life and they didn't want to leave.
What is a carpetbagger?
A Southerner who supported the Radical Republican Congress after the Civil War
Someone who's job it is to take carpet out of old houses
A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War to earn money or influence the politics in the South
A former slave who moved to the North after the Civil War
What did the Compromise of 1877 do?
Removed the Army from the South and marked the end of the Reconstruction Era
Sent the Army to the Southern states to protect the Civil Rights of former slaves
Ended Slavery
A deal that allowed former Confederates to be elected to Congress if they first asked for pardons from President Johnson
