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APUSH.P5.Reconstruction Study Quiz

Total questions: 55

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This Reconstruction plan said a state could rejoin if 10% of its population swore an oath of loyalty

a)

Lincoln's Plan

b)

Radical Republican's Plan

c)

Johnson's Plan

d)

Grant's Plan

2.

This was the government's plan to rebuild the South and reunite the United States after the Civil War

a)

Reconstruction

b)

Progressive Era

c)

Antebellum America

d)

American Revolution

3.

Which plan required a 50% oath of loyalty, creation of the Freedman's Bureau, and punishment of the South

a)

Johnson's Plan

b)

Lincoln's Plan

c)

Radical Republican's Plan

d)

Democrat's Plan

4.

What is one word that best describes Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction?

a)

Harsh

b)

Lenient

c)

Punitive

d)

Unfair

5.

Who wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?

a)

Democrats

b)

Scalawags

c)

Radical Republicans

d)

Carpetbaggers

6.

Who did the Radical Republicans attempt to impeach?

a)

Lincoln

b)

Grant

c)

Johnson

d)

Hayes

7.

How many military zones was the South divided into?

a)

1

b)

3

c)

5

d)

7

8.

What amendment abolished (ended) slavery?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

9.

The amendment that prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on his or her race.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

10.

The 14th amendment to the Constitution was the second of the "Reconstruction Amendments." What was the purpose of this amendment?

a)

to give African Americans the right to vote

b)

to abolish slavery

c)

to give all Americans citizenship regardless of race

d)

to officially terminate the government of the Confederate States of America

11.

Jim Crow Laws included __________________

a)

separate schools, restaurants and bathrooms

b)

literacy tests in order to vote

c)

poll taxes

d)

All of the above

12.

Black Codes are

a)

a coded language African Americans used

b)

Laws that restricted African American rights

c)

laws that told people what they could wear

d)

Curfew laws for African Americans

13.

What name was given to a terrorist group that used violence to keep African-Americans from having equal rights in the South?

a)

Freedman's Bureau

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Black Codes

d)

Ku Klux Klan

14.

After Reconstruction, blacks were not allowed to sit in the same areas at the theater as whites. They had to sit in the back part of the theater, while whites sat at the front of the theater. This is an example of:

a)

desegregation

b)

segregation

c)

integration

d)

reconstruction

15.

What group gained control of Congress after Lincoln's assassination?

a)

Southern Democrats

b)

Radical Republicans

c)

Former Confederates

d)

Communists

16.

In which plan, rejected by Lincoln, did a majority of the southern states' white adult males have to pledge loyalty to the Union?

a)

Wade-Davis Bill

b)

Civil Rights Act

c)

10% plan

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

17.

The 15th amendment gave the right to vote to

a)

All African Americans

b)

Native Americans

c)

African American men

d)

White Women

18.

Who was the first African American to serve in the US senate?

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Hiram Revels

d)

Barack Obama

19.

Rutherford B. Hayes agreed to remove federal troops from the South in order to win the Presidency in the Election of 1876. This--

a)

started Reconstruction

b)

got him impeached

c)

made Southern Democrats angry

d)

ended Reconstruction

20.

Many southern states passed laws after the Compromise of 1877. The laws that legalized the segregation of whites and blacks were called--

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Freedman's Bureau

c)

Black Codes

d)

Reconstruction

21.

How did the 14th amendment overrule the Dred Scott decision?

a)

It abolished slavery

b)

It protected African Americans as equal citizens

c)

It said slaves could vote

d)

It said that African Americans could move north

22.

Overall, Reconstruction--

a)

brought changes to the Constitution that weren't entirely enforced

b)

was a complete success

c)

was a complete failure

d)

was fully embraced by the South

23.

What gov't agency was established to provide assistance to former slaves & poor whites?

a)

Freedmen's Bureau

b)

Bureau of Land Management

c)

Bureau of Indian Affairs

d)

National Park Service

24.

Who were the Southern Democrats who regained control of state gov'ts after 1872?

a)

Redeemers

b)

Carpetbaggers

c)

Scalawags

d)

Radicals

25.

President Johnson was impeached for violating what law?

a)

Tenure of Office Act

b)

1st Reconstruction Act

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

d)

14th Amendment

26.

The Ku Klux Klan used violence & intimidation to prevent African Americans from doing what?

a)

voting

b)

living in urban areas

c)

applying for jobs

d)

owning land

27.

Most southerners receive amnesty, Confederates could be pardoned, states must ratify 13th

a)

Lincoln's Plan

b)

Sherman's Plan

c)

Johnson's Plan

d)

Radical Reconstruction

28.

System of work for freedmen that traded 50% of grown crops for the use of a house & land

a)

sharecropping

b)

tenant farming

c)

40 acres & a mule

d)

pastoralism

29.

Northerner who when to the South for economic gain

a)

carpetbagger

b)

freedman

c)

scalawag

d)

tenant farmer

30.

A Southern white Republican would have been considered a ____________ by their fellow Southerners.

a)

scalawags

b)

redeemers

c)

carpetbaggers

d)

radicals

31.

Union General; 18th President of the U.S., elected in 1868; known for numerous scandals during his administration

a)

U.S. Grant

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Rutherford B. Hayes

d)

George B. McClellan

32.

During Reconstruction the South was under Military rule

a)

True

b)

False

33.

Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?

a)

Nathan Bedford Forrest

b)

Henry Clay

c)

John Wilkes Booth

d)

John Breckinridge

34.

Northerners who went south after the Civil War to make large profits from the destruction in the south were called

a)

Scalawags

b)

Carpetbaggers

c)

Ku Klux Klan

d)

Sharecroppers

35.

Who replaces Lincoln as President after his assassination?

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Ulysses Grant

c)

Rutherford Hayes

d)

Andrew Johnson

36.

In what year was Texas annexed into the United States?

a)

1836

b)

1845

c)

1849

d)

1855

37.

The New Mexico and _____________ Territories were organized as part of the Compromise of 1850.

a)

California

b)

Nevada

c)

Utah

d)

Arizona

38.

Which president was elected in 1844 on a platform supporting expansion and Manifest Destiny?

a)

John Quincy Adams

b)

William H. Harrison

c)

Zachary Taylor

d)

James K. Polk

39.

All of the following were western trails taken by American pioneers EXCEPT

a)

California

b)

Mormon

c)

Texas

d)

Oregon

40.

Which president signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act into law?

a)

Millard Fillmore

b)

James Buchanan

c)

Zachary Taylor

d)

Franklin Pierce

41.

Which of these government policies led directly to the founding of the Republican Party in the 1850s?

a)

Fugitive Slave Act

b)

Dred Scott Decision

c)

Gadsden Purchase

d)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

42.

In which election did the Republican Party first compete for the presidency?

a)

1848

b)

1856

c)

1860

d)

1864

43.

"Fifty-four Forty or Fight!" was a slogan employed by expansionists in reference to __________________.

a)

Texas

b)

California

c)

Kansas

d)

Oregon

44.

Which of these treaties concluded the Mexican-American War?

a)

Guadalcanal

b)

San Jacinto

c)

Guadalupe Hidalgo

d)

San Francisco

45.

Which of these states was a slave state that did NOT secede from the Union

a)

Ohio

b)

Kentucky

c)

Tennessee

d)

North Carolina

46.

In Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, his opponents ended up being ________ vote(s) short of the votes required for a conviction.

a)

one

b)

two

c)

five

d)

seven

47.

After which battle did Lincoln issue the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

a)

Fredricksburg

b)

Antietam

c)

Gettysburg

d)

Shiloh

48.

Which African American volunteer regiment was the subject of the award-winning 1989 film, Glory?

a)

54th Massachusetts

b)

26th Pennsylvania

c)

42nd Maine

d)

38th New Jersey

49.

The overall Union war strategy was outlined in Gen. Winfield Scott's ______________ Plan.

a)

Copperhead

b)

Cobra

c)

Boa

d)

Anaconda

50.

Which of the following battles was fought in the North?

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Vicksburg

c)

Petersburg

d)

Shiloh

51.

Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820:

a)

the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones.

b)

Congress banned slavery in any new territory that might ever be added to the United States.

c)

Missouri agreed to gradual emancipation of slavery in exchange for admission to the Union.

d)

Ohio became a free state to balance the admission of Missouri as a slave state.

52.

During Reconstruction, the Freedmen’s Bureau was able to

a)

distribute 40-acre plots to all ex slaves who wanted land.

b)

greatly increase the number of former slaves who could read (literate).

c)

convince many Southern whites to join the Republican Party.

d)

repress much of the violence committed against ex-slaves.

53.

12. The slogan “Manifest Destiny” referred to the conviction of Americans in the 1840s that the United States had a(n)

a)

God-Given right to exist as a nation.

b)

opportunity to replace greed with benevolence

c)

obligation to spread across the continent.

d)

mission to free slaves.

54.

The Free Soil Party, like many northerners:

a)

feared the expansion of slavery in the west would be competition for white labor.

b)

cost Henry Clay the presidency by siphoning off votes from him in New York.

c)

was powerful enough to convince James Polk not to seek reelection.

d)

strongly opposed the Wilmot Proviso but agreed to let it pass as part of a compromise.

55.

An increase in which of the following was the key part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to attract Southern support?

a)

Transportation in the South

b)

Popular sovereignty

c)

Fugitive Slave Act

d)

Representation in Congress