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Reconstruction Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of these was not an issue in the South

a)

Income gap between planters and former slaves

b)

Violence in the South

c)

Racial tensions

d)

Worms infested cotton (the cash crop)

2.

Which president was not in favor of Black rights?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Ulysees S. Grant

c)

Andrew Johnson

d)

Andrew Jackson

3.

Which plan did not say spacers would be completely over following the Civil War?

a)

Johnson

b)

Congress

c)

Lincoln

d)

Hayes

4.

How did Congress feel after the Civil Wat and during Reconstruction?

a)

Racial equality is up to the states

b)

Slavery should stay in place for the economy

c)

Racial equality will be a slow gradual process

d)

Military troops should reside in the South to ensure racial equality

5.

What was the Tenure of Office Act?

a)

State protection of all citizens

b)

Provided an organization to help increase living standards for African Americans

c)

Illegal for president to remove cabinet members he did not appoint

d)

Divide South into five military regions

6.

Johnson was tried to be impeached for violating ____, and was found guilty of the violation.

a)

Tenure of Ofdice Act, No he was found not-guilty by one vote

b)

Reconstruction Act, No he was found not-guilty by more than one vote

c)

Tenure of Office Act, Yes he was impeached by more than one vote

d)

Reconstruction Act, Yes he was impeached by more than one vote

7.

What was the 14th amendment?

a)

No state can deprive someone of life. liberty, and pursuits of happiness

b)

Made slavery illegal

c)

The right to vote can not be denied base on race

d)

Gave women voting rights

8.

Which of these did the Freedman’s Bureau not do?

a)

Relocate African Americans

b)

Protect African Americans

c)

Build schools

d)

Ease transition from slavery to freedom

9.

What two types of people did the KKK target?

a)

Republicans

b)

African Americans

c)

Democrats

d)

Catholics

10.

Where was the KKK founded?

a)

VA

b)

SC

c)

MS

d)

TN

11.

What was the KKK’s goals?

a)

Restore slavery

b)

Destroy Reconstructon

c)

Unify the country

d)

1&3

e)

All of the above

12.

What president did not address Reconstruction due to scandals in office?

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

Rutherford B. Hayes

d)

Abraham Lincoln

13.

What Supreme Court case said that the 14th amendment did not give the federal power the right to punish whites who oppressed Blacks?

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

United States v. Cruickshank

c)

Slaughterhouse cases

d)

Civil Rights Cases

14.

What was the Grandfather Clause?

a)

Must take literacy test to vote

b)

Required tax to pay to vote

c)

If previous relative didn’t vote then you couldn’t vote

d)

Set of laws used in the South

15.

What are Jim Crow customs?

a)

A set of laws used to segregate whites from blacks

b)

Passed by President

c)

Restricted use of public facilities

d)

Informal social norms that outline interactions between Whites and Blacks