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WorksheetsAPUSH.P5.Reconstruction Study Quiz
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 28mins
This Reconstruction plan said a state could rejoin if 10% of its population swore an oath of loyalty
Lincoln's Plan
Radical Republican's Plan
Johnson's Plan
Grant's Plan
This was the government's plan to rebuild the South and reunite the United States after the Civil War
Reconstruction
Progressive Era
Antebellum America
American Revolution
Which plan required a 50% oath of loyalty, creation of the Freedman's Bureau, and punishment of the South
Johnson's Plan
Lincoln's Plan
Radical Republican's Plan
Democrat's Plan
What is one word that best describes Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction?
Harsh
Lenient
Punitive
Unfair
Who wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?
Democrats
Scalawags
Radical Republicans
Carpetbaggers
Who did the Radical Republicans attempt to impeach?
Lincoln
Grant
Johnson
Hayes
How many military zones was the South divided into?
1
3
5
7
What amendment abolished (ended) slavery?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
The amendment that prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on his or her race.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
The 14th amendment to the Constitution was the second of the "Reconstruction Amendments." What was the purpose of this amendment?
to give African Americans the right to vote
to abolish slavery
to give all Americans citizenship regardless of race
to officially terminate the government of the Confederate States of America
Jim Crow Laws included __________________
separate schools, restaurants and bathrooms
literacy tests in order to vote
poll taxes
All of the above
Black Codes are
a coded language African Americans used
Laws that restricted African American rights
laws that told people what they could wear
Curfew laws for African Americans
What name was given to a terrorist group that used violence to keep African-Americans from having equal rights in the South?
Freedman's Bureau
Jim Crow Laws
Black Codes
Ku Klux Klan
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:
desegregation
segregation
integration
reconstruction
What group gained control of Congress after Lincoln's assassination?
Southern Democrats
Radical Republicans
Former Confederates
Communists
In which plan, rejected by Lincoln, did a majority of the southern states' white adult males have to pledge loyalty to the Union?
Wade-Davis Bill
Civil Rights Act
10% plan
Freedmen's Bureau
The 15th amendment gave the right to vote to
All African Americans
Native Americans
African American men
White Women
Who was the first African American to serve in the US senate?
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Hiram Revels
Barack Obama
Rutherford B. Hayes agreed to remove federal troops from the South in order to win the Presidency in the Election of 1876. This--
started Reconstruction
got him impeached
made Southern Democrats angry
ended Reconstruction
Many southern states passed laws after the Compromise of 1877. The laws that legalized the segregation of whites and blacks were called--
Jim Crow Laws
Freedman's Bureau
Black Codes
Reconstruction
How did the 14th amendment overrule the Dred Scott decision?
It abolished slavery
It protected African Americans as equal citizens
It said slaves could vote
It said that African Americans could move north
Overall, Reconstruction--
brought changes to the Constitution that weren't entirely enforced
was a complete success
was a complete failure
was fully embraced by the South
What gov't agency was established to provide assistance to former slaves & poor whites?
Freedmen's Bureau
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of Indian Affairs
National Park Service
Who were the Southern Democrats who regained control of state gov'ts after 1872?
Redeemers
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Radicals
President Johnson was impeached for violating what law?
Tenure of Office Act
1st Reconstruction Act
Civil Rights Act of 1866
14th Amendment
The Ku Klux Klan used violence & intimidation to prevent African Americans from doing what?
voting
living in urban areas
applying for jobs
owning land
Most southerners receive amnesty, Confederates could be pardoned, states must ratify 13th
Lincoln's Plan
Sherman's Plan
Johnson's Plan
Radical Reconstruction
System of work for freedmen that traded 50% of grown crops for the use of a house & land
sharecropping
tenant farming
40 acres & a mule
pastoralism
Northerner who when to the South for economic gain
carpetbagger
freedman
scalawag
tenant farmer
A Southern white Republican would have been considered a ____________ by their fellow Southerners.
scalawags
redeemers
carpetbaggers
radicals
Union General; 18th President of the U.S., elected in 1868; known for numerous scandals during his administration
U.S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes
George B. McClellan
During Reconstruction the South was under Military rule
True
False
Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Henry Clay
John Wilkes Booth
John Breckinridge
Northerners who went south after the Civil War to make large profits from the destruction in the south were called
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan
Sharecroppers
Who replaces Lincoln as President after his assassination?
Jefferson Davis
Ulysses Grant
Rutherford Hayes
Andrew Johnson
In what year was Texas annexed into the United States?
1836
1845
1849
1855
The New Mexico and _____________ Territories were organized as part of the Compromise of 1850.
California
Nevada
Utah
Arizona
Which president was elected in 1844 on a platform supporting expansion and Manifest Destiny?
John Quincy Adams
William H. Harrison
Zachary Taylor
James K. Polk
All of the following were western trails taken by American pioneers EXCEPT
California
Mormon
Texas
Oregon
Which president signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act into law?
Millard Fillmore
James Buchanan
Zachary Taylor
Franklin Pierce
Which of these government policies led directly to the founding of the Republican Party in the 1850s?
Fugitive Slave Act
Dred Scott Decision
Gadsden Purchase
Kansas-Nebraska Act
In which election did the Republican Party first compete for the presidency?
1848
1856
1860
1864
"Fifty-four Forty or Fight!" was a slogan employed by expansionists in reference to __________________.
Texas
California
Kansas
Oregon
Which of these treaties concluded the Mexican-American War?
Guadalcanal
San Jacinto
Guadalupe Hidalgo
San Francisco
Which of these states was a slave state that did NOT secede from the Union
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
North Carolina
In Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, his opponents ended up being ________ vote(s) short of the votes required for a conviction.
one
two
five
seven
After which battle did Lincoln issue the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?
Fredricksburg
Antietam
Gettysburg
Shiloh
Which African American volunteer regiment was the subject of the award-winning 1989 film, Glory?
54th Massachusetts
26th Pennsylvania
42nd Maine
38th New Jersey
The overall Union war strategy was outlined in Gen. Winfield Scott's ______________ Plan.
Copperhead
Cobra
Boa
Anaconda
Which of the following battles was fought in the North?
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Petersburg
Shiloh
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820:
the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones.
Congress banned slavery in any new territory that might ever be added to the United States.
Missouri agreed to gradual emancipation of slavery in exchange for admission to the Union.
Ohio became a free state to balance the admission of Missouri as a slave state.
During Reconstruction, the Freedmen’s Bureau was able to
distribute 40-acre plots to all ex slaves who wanted land.
greatly increase the number of former slaves who could read (literate).
convince many Southern whites to join the Republican Party.
repress much of the violence committed against ex-slaves.
12. The slogan “Manifest Destiny” referred to the conviction of Americans in the 1840s that the United States had a(n)
God-Given right to exist as a nation.
opportunity to replace greed with benevolence
obligation to spread across the continent.
mission to free slaves.
The Free Soil Party, like many northerners:
feared the expansion of slavery in the west would be competition for white labor.
cost Henry Clay the presidency by siphoning off votes from him in New York.
was powerful enough to convince James Polk not to seek reelection.
strongly opposed the Wilmot Proviso but agreed to let it pass as part of a compromise.
An increase in which of the following was the key part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to attract Southern support?
Transportation in the South
Popular sovereignty
Fugitive Slave Act
Representation in Congress
