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Reconstruction VA History

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What did the 13th Amendment do?
a)
made slavery illegal
b)
made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
c)
gave black men the right to vote
d)
gave former slaves land to begin farms
2.
What was segregation?
a)
equal treatment for all people
b)
the forced separation of races
c)
a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
d)
the period of time after the Civil War
3.
What was Reconstruction?
a)
equal treatment for all people
b)
the forced separation of races
c)
a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
d)
the period of time after the Civil War
4.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
a)
equal treatment for all people
b)
laws that made segregation legal
c)
a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
d)
the period of time after the Civil War
5.
The US government created what organization to help former slaves and poor whites?
a)
Bureau of Parks and Recreation
b)
Free Food Bureau
c)
Jobs and Education Bureau
d)
Freedman's Bureau
6.
Laws that required the African-Americans be separated from white in public places are...
a)
Jim Crow Laws
b)
Black Codes
c)
Grandfather Codes
d)
Integration Laws
7.
System of farming where farmers gave part of their crop to pay for the land they rented
a)
Family-Farming
b)
Sharecropping
c)
Groupcropping
d)
Split-Farming
8.
Why did sharecroppers remain poor?
a)
The South flooded during Reconstrucion
b)
They owed money to the landowners, never getting out of debt
c)
The sun never shone on crops
d)
Animals ate all the crops
9.
What was the purpose of the Freedman's Bureau?
a)
provide food, clothing, and medical care
b)
provided legal advice to poor whites and former slaves
c)
set up hospitals and schools
d)
all of the above
10.
How was President Lincoln killed?
a)
heart failure
b)
bit by a snake
c)
falling off a horse
d)
shot by John Wilkes Booth
11.
Which side's farms, factories, railroads, etc. were destroyed?
a)
North
b)
South
c)
Both
12.

What is the name of the man who assassinated Abe Lincoln

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

John Wilkes Booth

d)

Abraham Lincoln

13.
Which is the best description of Reconstruction?
a)
rebuilding the US after a big earthquake
b)
a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War
c)
a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War
d)
unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War
14.
Who could hold public office in the south during Reconstruction?
a)
African Americans
b)
Confederate Leaders
c)
Southern Women
d)
American Indians
15.
Abraham Lincoln believed...
a)
African Americans needed Constitutional Amendments to guarantee voting rights
b)
in the southern cause
c)
southern states should have to prove their loyalty after the war
d)
preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the south
16.
Who could hold public office in the south after the Civil War? 
a)
southern women
b)
Confederate Leaders
c)
American Indians
d)
African Americans
17.
Jim Crow Laws passed after Reconstruction took away African American Voting Rights using...
a)
Voter Registration Laws
b)
Political Gerrymandering
c)
Voter Identification Laws
d)
Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests
18.

Who was Lincoln’s Vice President who took over after we was assassinated?

a)

Jim Crow

b)

Lyndon Johnson

c)

Andrew Johnson

d)

James Garfield

19.

Radical Republicans wanted to be much more _____________ on the Confederacy for seceding.

a)

strict

b)

lenient

c)

fair

d)

angry

20.

What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?

a)

A Confederate agency who sought to intimidate African-Americans

b)

A United States agency who sought to protect the legal rights and offer assistance to African-Americans

c)

An agency of African-Americans who fought in the Civil War

d)

A group of slave owners who united in order to reclaim their slave property

21.

Which of the following describes a sharecropper?

a)

A white southerner who supported Reconstruction in the South

b)

A northerner who moved to the South to take advantage of the poor economic and political situation

c)

A former confederate soldier who would terrorize and intimidate former slaves to keep inferior

d)

A former slave who remained on the plantation and worked in exchange for food and shelter

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