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The Reconstruction Era

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This amendment abolished slavery

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

2.

This amendment stated anyone born in the United States is a citizen with equal rights.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

3.

This amendment gave African American men the right to vote

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

4.

This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...

a)

establish churches to provide aid in the Southern states.

b)

reunify the former Confederate States and to craft a plan to readmit them to the Union.

c)

establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.

d)

abolish former Confederate governments and to punish former Confederate leaders.

5.

Which of the following were challenges experienced by African Americans following the Civil War? (SELECT ALL THAT ARE CORRECT)

a)

Racial terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan

b)

Lack of a formal education or employment opportunities

c)

Limitations of 13th Amendment freedoms through Black Codes

d)

Enjoyment of civil rights and the ability to participate in the government through voting

6.

Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?

a)

African American families divided by slavery were reunited

b)

Newly free men and women moved west to claim land

c)

African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election

d)

Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship

7.

After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to -

a)

punish plantation owners for the use of slavery

b)

support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South

c)

promote the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau

d)

limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment

8.

The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to -

a)

Establish legal requirements for the education of former slaves

b)

Mandate fair labor contracts between African American workers and plantation owners

c)

Abolish the institution of slavery

d)

Protect the voting rights of African American men

9.

Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?

a)

The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

The positions taken int he Know-Nothing Party Platform

c)

The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War

d)

The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation

10.

What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

a)

Agricultural workers organized labor unions

b)

Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt

c)

Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses

d)

Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves

11.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by -

a)

Providing them with voting rights

b)

Guaranteeing their freedom of speech

c)

Providing them with access to the court system

d)

Guaranteeing their permanent freedom from slavery

12.

The election of Hiram Rhodes Revels in 1870 was significant because he was the first African American to -

a)

win an election as a member of the Democratic Party

b)

win a majority of the popular vote in Mississippi

c)

serve as a member of the U.S. Senate

d)

run for public office in the South

13.

Poll Taxes

Literacy Tests

Grandfather Clauses


The measures in this list are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the -

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Fifteenth Amendment

c)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

d)

Dred Scott v. Sandford decision

14.

This political cartoon comments on events that occurred during the -

a)

Reconstruction Era

b)

Age of Jackson

c)

Second Great Awakening

d)

Civil War