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Reconstruction

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did the 13th amendment accomplish?

a)

It mad slavery illegal

b)

Grants citizenship & equal protection

c)

Guarantees voting rights

2.

What did the 14th amendment accomplish?

a)

Freedom of religion

b)

Grants citizenship and equal protection

c)

Made slavery illegal

d)

Guarantees voting rights

3.

What did the 15th amendment accomplish?

a)

Grants citizenship & equal protection

b)

Right to bear arms

c)

Bans slavery

d)

Guarantees voting rights

4.

He would have said, "It is more important to preserve the Union and reconcile rather than punish the South"

a)

Frederick Douglas

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Robert E. Lee

5.

These were used to take away the rights of African Americans in the South after the Civil War.

a)

Amendments

b)

White Codes

c)

Black Codes

d)

Civil Rights

6.

Who fought for the civil rights of all people following the Civil War...especially voting rights

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Frederick Douglas

c)

Abraham Lincoln

7.

What gave African Americans equal rights and authorized the use of federal troops for its enforcement?

a)

15th Amendment

b)

Civil Rights Acts of 1866

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

d)

Black Codes

8.

Which of the following is NOT associated with the Election of 1876?

a)

The beginning of Reconstruction

b)

The end of Reconstruction

c)

Tilden & Hayes

d)

The Removal of troops from the south

9.

The following group provided aid (help) to former slaves during Reconstruction.

a)

Black Codes

b)

Carpetbaggers

c)

13th Amendment

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

10.

Which of the following is NOT a policy?

a)

Southern military leaders were barred from public office.

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1866 was enforced by federal troops.

c)

African Americans could be elected to public office.

d)

Southerners resented (felt angry about) carpetbaggers.

11.

This group used fear & violence to prevent African Americans from voting in the South following Reconstruction

a)

Black Codes

b)

Ku Klux Klan

c)

Radical Republicans

d)

Carpetbaggers

12.

Northerner who took economic, political, or social advantage of the south following the Civil War

a)

Radical Republican

b)

Confederate

c)

Carpetbagger

d)

Yankee

13.

Agricultural & economic practice where a land owner allows a tenant farmer to work his land for a share of his crop

a)

sustenance farming

b)

sharecropping

c)

carpetbagger

d)

slavery

14.

He believed..."The black man is not truly free until he has the ballot."

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Frederick Douglas

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Jefferson Davis

15.

He urged the south to stop fighting, and believed that both sides needed to work together during Reconstruction

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Frederick Douglas

d)

Rutherford B. Hayes