WorksheetsUnit 14: Reconstruction Review
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
_____ is the time period immediately following the Civil War.
Reconciliation
Rebuilidng
Reconstruction
Restoration
Another name for Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction is ____.
The 10% plan
The 15% plan
Republican Reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction
According to Lincoln's Reconstruction plan...
States could be readmitted once 10% of people swore allegiance to the Union
Only 10% of southerners would be punished for rebelling
51% of southerners had to swear allegiance to the union to be readmitted
Confederate officers could hold office in state governments
Congress's first plan for Reconstruction was seen in the...
KKK Act
The Black Codes
Freedman's Bureau Act
Wade-Davis Bill
What is a pocket-veto?
The President has the right to hold the bill for 8 days before deciding on it. After which, it automatically is vetoed.
The President can hold any bill for 10 days before making a decision to pass or veto it. After 10 days, it goes back to the house where it will become law (if Congress is present) or vetoed (if Congress is on recess).
The President can hold only certain bills for 10 days before acting on it. After 10 days, the bill must become a law.
The President placed the bill in his “pocket” for 10 days to think it over before making a final decision on whether to approve or veto the bill. After 10 days, the power to make a decision passes to the Vice President.
______ assassinated President Lincoln.
Lee Harvey Oswald
John Wilkes Booth
Leon Czologosz
Edward Stanton
President Lincoln was watching ____ when he was assassinated.
My Fair Lady
The Sound of Music
Our American Cousin
The American President
_______ succeeded Lincoln in office upon his assassination.
Jim Crow
Lyndon Johnson
Andrew Johnson
James Garfield
Which of the following words describes Radical Republicans attitudes towards reconstruction in the post war South?
Strict
Lenient
Fair
Angry
The 13th Amendment...
Gave African-Americans the right to vote
Ended slavery (except for the case of incarceration)
Grants equal citizenship and legal protection to African-Americans
Gave women the right to vote
The 14th Amendment...
Gave African-Americans the right to vote
Ended slavery
Granted equal citizenship and legal protection to African-Americans (and anyone born in the US)
All of the above
What does the 15th Amendment do?
Gave all African-Americans the right to vote
Gave women the right to vote
Ended slavery
Gave African-American men the right to vote
What was the Freedman's Bureau and why was it important to Reconstruction?
A Confederate agency who sought to intimidate African-Americans
An United States agency who sought to protect the legal rights of African-Americans
An agency of African-Americans who fought in the Civil War
A group of slave owners who united in order to reclaim their slave property
The Black Codes were created in many Southern states shortly following the Civil War. What were they?
A set of laws passed to keep African-Americans from having rights equal as whites
A set of laws passed that guaranteed equal job opportunities for blacks and whites
A set of laws that allowed African-Americans to serve in a state’s legislature
A set of laws that kept blacks in separate schools as whites
Which of the following describes a carpetbagger?
A white southerner who supported Reconstruction in the South
A northerner who moved to the South to take advantage of the poor economic and political situation
A former confederate soldier who would terrorize and intimidate former slaves to keep inferior
A former slave who remained on the plantation and worked in exchange for food and shelter
Which of the following describes a scalawag?
A white southerner who supported Reconstruction in the South
A former confederate soldier who would terrorize and intimidate former slaves to keep inferior
A northerner who moved to the South to take advantage of the poor economic and political situation
A former slave who remained on the plantation and worked in exchange for food and shelter
Which of the following describes a sharecropper?
A white southerner who supported Reconstruction in the South
A northerner who moved to the South to take advantage of the poor economic and political situation
A former confederate soldier who would terrorize and intimidate former slaves to keep inferior
A former slave who remained on the plantation and worked in exchange for food and shelter
Following the period of the Black Codes, laws were instituted known as “Jim Crow Laws.” What were these?
Laws that legally segregated whites and blacks in public places
Laws that forced former slaves to stay living on plantations
Laws that prevented blacks from voting
Laws that demanded former slave owners to break up their plantations and give their land to former slaves
How are the Black Codes and the Jim Crow Laws different?
The Jim Crow laws were more fair
The Black Codes were more fair
The Black Codes made no attempt at equality
Jim Crow only affected former slaves while the Black Codes affected all African-Americans
What two candidates ran for President in 1877?
Ulysses S Grant v. Rutherford B Hayes
Abraham Lincoln v. Ulysses S Grant
James Garfield v. William Howard Taft
Samuel Tilden v. Rutherford B Hayes
Because of a controversy over election results in 1877, the Presidency was given to the Republicans IF they do what?
Repeal the Black Codes in whole country
Pull the military out of the South
Allow the Ku Klux Klan to do as they wish
Make the Vice President a Southern Democrat
The name “Jim Crow” from the Jim Crow laws comes from ____________
a book
a type of food
a play
a magazine
Who would be targeted by the Ku Klux Klan?
African-Americans
Republicans
Carpetbaggers
All of the Above
None of the Above
In what ways did African-Americans gain more rights during Reconstruction?
slavery came to an end (13th amendment)
African-Americans granted citizenship (14th)
the right to vote, however only males (15th)
Black codes granted African-Americans more legal freedom
Which of the following would be considered a success of Reconstruction?
slavery ended
Freedman’s Bureau created to help African-Americans
sharecropping returned
extended voting rights to African-Americans
Jim Crow laws kept society segregated
Which of the following would be considered a failure of Reconstruction?
Jim Crow laws legally kept society segregated
sharecropping returned slaves to plantation
black codes kept blacks from truly being treated as equals
The passing of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
The creation of the Freedmen's Bureau
