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Racial Equality Test #2

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Reconstruction begins

a)

Before the Civil War

b)

Right after the Civil War

c)

In the mid 1900s

d)

During WWII

2.
What amendment abolished slavery?
a)
13th
b)
14th
c)
15th
d)
16th
3.

The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution

a)

Gave African Americans citizenship

b)

Gave African Americans the right to vote

c)

Freed the slaves

d)

Gave landowners the right to sharecrop

4.

The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution

a)

Gave African Americans the right to own businesses

b)

Freed the Slaves

c)

Gave African Americans the right to vote

d)

Forced African Americans back into slavery

5.

Which of the following was NOT a goal of Reconstruction?

a)

To reunite the North and the South

b)

To rebuild the South after the war

c)

To develop the system of sharecropping

d)

To determine what to do with the newly freed African Americans

6.

The Freedmen's Bureau did all of the following for former slaves EXCEPT

a)

Help reconnect them with their families

b)

Help create schools

c)

Help feed and clothe them

d)

Help them to become sharecroppers

7.

Who felt that Lincoln's Reconstruction plan was too lenient?

a)

Determined Democrats

b)

Radical Republicans

c)

Southern Confederates

d)

Northern Businessmen

8.

After the Compromise of 1877, these laws quickly passed in the southern states that legalized the segregation of whites and blacks within public facilities.

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Enforcement Laws

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

d)

Reconstruction Acts

9.

Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was known as the

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Ten Percent Plan

d)

Radical Republican Reunification

10.
Groups like the Ku Klux Klan that formed during Reconstruction helped freed slaves and worked to protect their rights.
a)
True
b)
False
11.

After an electoral dispute, it was agreed that Rutherford B. Hayes would become President if he ended Reconstruction. This is often referred to as:

a)

Ten Percent Plan

b)

The Compromise of 1877

c)

The Missouri Compromise

d)

The Illegal Compromise

12.

During Reconstruction, most former Confederate states were

a)

placed under military rule for a period of time

b)

readmitted into the Union, but only after promising to end slavery within 10 years

c)

given full representation in Congress without issue

d)

completely supportive of the immediate end of slavery throughout the U.S.

13.

After an electoral dispute resulting in the Compromise of 1877, it was agreed that Rutherford B. Hayes would become President if

a)

he would create a new Freedmen's Bureau

b)

he ended Reconstruction and removed troops from the south

c)

he would allow African Americans full rights in the North

d)

he promised to only serve one term in office

14.

What were Jim Crow laws?

a)

laws that legalized segregation against African Americans

b)

laws that guaranteed equal rights to all African American citizens

c)

laws that legalized slavery

d)

laws that protected African Americans voting rights

15.
How was slavery replaced with sharecropping?
a)
Newly freed slaves were treated unfairly.
b)
Newly freed slaves continued to work in fields and received little pay.
c)
Newly freed slaves still had to depend on their masters in their new lives. 
d)
All answers are correct. 
16.

Who founded the NAACP?

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Harriet Tubman

17.

Which activist believed that African Americans should temporarily accept social segregation while receiving vocational training and working hard to prove themselves?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

W.E.B. Du Bois

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Abraham Lincoln

18.

What is depicted in this photo?

a)

The Gettysburg Address

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Voting Restrictions

d)

The Enforcement Acts

19.

After the Civil War, this group pushed for strict punishment of Confederate veterans and promoted financial assistance for African Americans

a)

Radical Democrats

b)

Moderate Republicans

c)

Radical Republicans

d)

Moderate Democrats

20.

In 1866, this group formed and started to use violence and intimidation to fight against the rising influence of African Americans in the South

a)

Sons of the Confederacy

b)

Neo-Nazis

c)

Ku Klux Klan

d)

Black Separatists

21.

Which of the following was NOT a method used to keep freed blacks from voting?

a)

Grandfather Clause

b)

Poll Taxes

c)

Literacy Tests

d)

Peaceful Boycotts

22.

The "separate but equal" principle established by the Plessy vs. Ferguson Case (1896) led to the

a)

Start of the Civil War

b)

End of Reconstruction

c)

Spread of racially segregated facilities in the South

d)

Integration of White and African American military regiments

23.

The legal court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson was that

a)

segregation was illegal and was ordered to end immediately

b)

literacy tests were ruled to be legal

c)

segregation was legal as long as it was equal

d)

segregation is inherently unequal

24.

This became a common practice in the South after Reconstruction ended that was later nicknamed "a new form of slavery"

a)

Voting Restrictions

b)

Convict Leasing

c)

Poll Taxing

d)

Black Codes

25.

President Andrew Johnson believed in full political and social equality for African Americans

a)

True

b)

False