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WorksheetsLesson 23 Reconstruction Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 2hrs 40mins
What was Reconstruction?
An agency created by Congress to help protect newly freed black Americans.
Laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit rights and freedoms of African Americans.
The period after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back to the Union.
What did the 13th Amendment abolish (get rid of)?
Confederate States
Slavery
Child Labor
Which of these was NOT part of President Johnson's Reconstruction plan?
Confederate states could join once they had rewritten a new state consitution, elected a new state government, and canceled its war debts.
All states had to ratify the 13th Amendment.
Adopted Freedmen's Bureau policies in their states.
Which of these were the reasons the South passed the black codes in order to control former slaves?
They wanted to limit the rights of freedmen.
They wanted to help planters find workers to replace their slaves.
They wanted to keep freedmen at the bottom of the social order in the South.
All of these were reasons.
Which of these defines civil rights?
Rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens.
Abolishing slavery.
Laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War.
What does the 14th Amendment grant?
The abolition of slavery.
Citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guarantees all citizens equal protection of the law.
The right to vote.
True or False: President Johnson was successfully impeached by Congress.
True
False
True or False: Sharecropping ended a lifetime of poverty and debt for former slaves living in the South.
True
False
What does the 15th Amendment guarantee?
Everybody's right to vote - regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
The end to slavery for everyone living in the United States.
Civil rights for everyone who lives in the United States.
Who made up the largest group of new voters in the South?
African Americans
White Southerners
Northers who moved to the south after the Civil War.
True or False: After the 15th Amendment passed; African Americans were getting involved with government.
True
False
What did Congress hope the Enforcement Acts would prevent?
Misuse of tax money.
Attacks on political leaders.
To prevent people from taking away African American's right to vote in the South.
Why was the Klu Klux Klan formed?
To drive African Americans out of political life.
To end government corruption
To protect the voting rights of Southerners.
What did Southern Democrats pass in the south to restrict voting rights to African Americans?
A poll tax.
Made it mandatory to pass a literacy (reading) test before voting.
Both 1st and 2nd option
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
Laws enforcing the right to vote for all people.
Laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War.
Laws enforcing equal rights to all people.
True or False: All white Southerners supported segregation.
True
False
Which of these is a result of the Plessy v. Ferguson supreme court case?
Separate but equal public facilities are constitutional.
Jim Crow laws are unconstitutional.
Integration of schools is required by law.
How did many African Americans respond to segregation?
They migrated to cities in the North.
Some chose to return to Africa.
Some decided to move to Kansas.
All of the above.
Southern segregation pushed African Americans to move. What pulled them to other parts of the country?
The promise of free land.
The promise of free education.
The hope of better opportunities.
How did African Americans who remained in the South improve their lives?
They received money from relatives in the North.
The had violent protests to obtain their rights.
They worked together to build communities.
