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Reconstruction

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteed equal protection of the laws?

a)

14th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

c)

12th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

2.

This amendment made slavery illegal across the United States.

a)

14th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

c)

12th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

3.

Which amendment gave all men the right to vote?

a)

15th Amendment

b)

12th Amendment

c)

14th Amendment

d)

13th Amendment

4.

Which of the following was a goal Abraham Lincoln had for Reconstruction?

a)

Give harsh punishments to Southerners

b)

Avoid giving money to Southern States

c)

Pass the 15th Amendment

d)

Unite the country as quickly as possible

5.

Which of the following was a goal Radical Republicans had for Reconstruction?

a)

Ratify the 13th Amendment

b)

Elect former Confederates to Congress

c)

Sent the Army to the Southern states that were violating the civil rights of former slaves

d)

Require Southern Landowners to ask for pardons

6.

What is the difference between Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws?

a)

They were basically the same.

b)

Black Codes were meant to discriminate against African Americans while Jim Crow Laws were meant to segregate people based on race.

c)

Jim Crow Laws came before Black Codes.

d)

Black Codes were meant to segregate African Americans while Jim Crow Laws were meant to discriminate against people who weren't white.

7.

Which of these is NOT true about the Freemen's Bureau?

a)

Established 3,000 schools

b)

Supported by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

c)

Provided medical care to former slaves and poor white southerners

d)

It was vetoed by President Johnson twice

8.

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?

a)

Sharecropping

b)

Poll Taxes

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

d)

Crop Rotation

9.

Why were former slaves willing to participate in sharecropping?

a)

The 13th Amendment said that they had to sharecrop

b)

The scalawags told them that they should become sharecroppers because they would get wealthy quickly

c)

They thought that they would miss the landowners if they left

d)

They knew how to do the work, it didn’t cost money to start, and it was more freedom than they had had before

10.

Why was it difficult for former slaves and poor whites to stop sharecropping?

a)

The KKK would not let them leave

b)

The 14th amendment required them to work as a sharecropper

c)

They were often in debt to the land owner, and were stuck working for them

d)

Working as a sharecropper was a great life and they didn't want to leave.

11.

What is a carpetbagger?

a)

A Southerner who supported the Radical Republican Congress after the Civil War

b)

Someone who's job it is to take carpet out of old houses

c)

A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War to earn money or influence the politics in the South

d)

A former slave who moved to the North after the Civil War

12.

What did the Compromise of 1877 do?

a)

Removed the Army from the South and marked the end of the Reconstruction Era

b)

Sent the Army to the Southern states to protect the Civil Rights of former slaves

c)

Ended Slavery

d)

A deal that allowed former Confederates to be elected to Congress if they first asked for pardons from President Johnson