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Reconstruction

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class

Date

Reconstruction officially began at----

Lincoln's assassination

Lincoln's funeral procession

the capture of Jefferson Davis

the Surrender at Appomattox

Why was it more difficult for southerners to recover after the Civil War?

Mississippi River had flooded, causing underwaterfarms

most battles were fought on southern terrain

Confederate generals convinced everyone in the south to resist

their factories had been damaged in the war

What group gained control of Congress after Lincoln's assassination?

Southern Democrats

Former Confederates

Radical Republicans

Communists

The 15th amendment gave the right to vote to

All African Americans

African American men

Native Americans

White Women

Southern whites passed laws restricting the rights of African Americans called--

Black codes

Slave Laws

Confederate Rights

Merica Laws

The white terrorist group that attacked Blacks and white republicans to restore Democratic control in the South was the--

Kappa Kappa Kappa

Redeemers

Pure Race Fraternity

Ku Klux Klan

Which of the following is the best example of the 13th Amendment?

Many southern states passed laws after the Compromise of 1877. The laws that legalized the segregation of whites and blacks were called--

Jim Crow Laws

Black Codes

Freedman's Bureau

Reconstruction

How did the 14th amendment overrule the Dred Scott decision?

It abolished slavery

It said slaves could vote

It protected African Americans as equal citizens

It said that African Americans could move north

10.

What was the purpose of the Freedman's Bureau?

provide food, clothing, and medical care

provided legal advice to poor whites and former slaves

set up hospitals and schools

all of the above

11.

What were the Black Codes?

laws designed to deny the rights given to blacks in the 13th-15th amendments

Building laws that stated no blacks were allowed to live there

laws that repealed the Bill of rights

secret message that were printed in black-owned newspapers

12.

Former Union General who would become president

Andrew Johnson

Ulysses S. Grant

John Wilkes Booth

Abraham Lincoln

13.

Lincoln's plan for reconstruction was very--

violent & hateful

forgiving & lenient

aggressive & murderous

angry & petty

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Reconstruction

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 8mins

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