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Jim Crow

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 phases of Reconstruction?

a)

Presidential

b)

Radical

c)

Bourbon

d)

Jim Crow

2.

When did Reconstruction end?

a)

1865

b)

1869

c)

1876

d)

1898

e)

It never has

3.

What brought an end to Reconstruction?

a)

Wade-Davis Bill

b)

Compromise of 1876

c)

15th Amendment

d)

Black Codes

e)

Jim Crow Laws

4.

Who desired the harshest treatment of Southerners during Reconstruction?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Republicans

d)

Democrats

5.

T/F After Lincoln's assassination his successor Andrew Johnson took Reconstruction in a new direction.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Which of the following demanded a high threshold of of Southern voters to take the Oath of Allegiance before reentering the Union?

a)

10% Plan

b)

Wade-Davis Bill

c)

Tenure of Office Act

d)

13th Amendment

7.

Which identifies content of the 13th, 14th & 15th amendments in their correct order?

a)

abolished slavery, made freedmen citizens, guaranteed all citizens the right to vote

b)

made freedmen citizens, guaranteed all citizens the right to vote, abolished slavery

c)

abolished slavery, guaranteed all citizens the right to vote, made freedmen citizens

d)

made freedmen citizens, abolished slavery, guaranteed all citizens the right to vote

8.

The conflict between which two led to the first Presidential impeachment in US history?

a)

Lincoln; Democrats

b)

Lincoln; Republicans

c)

Johnson; Democrats

d)

Johnson; Republicans

e)

Republicans; Democrats

9.

Which of the following was eventually struck down as unconstitutional?

a)

Wade-Davis Bill

b)

10% Plan

c)

13th amendment

d)

Tenure of Office Act

e)

Black Codes

10.

Which institution replaced the plantation as a center of economic and social activity in the Reconstruction South?

a)

sharecropping

b)

mill town

c)

black codes

d)

total war

11.

Which of the following were opponents of Radical Reconstruction?

a)

Lincoln

b)

Johnson

c)

Republicans

d)

Ku Klux Klan

e)

Democrats

12.

Which of the following is NOT true about the Compromise of 1876?

a)

It was triggered by a controversial presidential impeachment.

b)

It led to the removal of federal troops from all southern states.

c)

It led southern states to accept the 13th,14th & 15th amendments.

d)

It led to a decrease in political and economic power of freedmen in the South.

13.

Which of the following is NOT true of Plessy v. Ferguson?

a)

The ruling came in 1890

b)

It involved segregation on trains

c)

It was a ruling from the state supreme court

d)

It upheld laws supporting racial segregation

14.

Which principle was at the center of Plessy v. Ferguson?

a)

separate but equal justifies segregation

b)

blacks can be held as property and moved across state lines

c)

public schools and facilities must be integrated

d)

separate is inherently unequal

15.

Who was Jim Crow?

a)

a famous minstrel character portraying black stereotypes

b)

the nickname for the plaintiff in Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

an infamous black victim of the KKK

d)

a leader of a freedmen's rights groups

16.

Which of the following were motivations behind of Jim Crow laws?

a)

to prevent the mixing of blacks and whites in public

b)

to maintain whites on a higher social level than blacks

c)

to help freedmen adjust to the end of slavery during Reconstruction

d)

to prevent white states from returning to the Union without swearing allegiance to the Constitution

17.

Which of the following represents Jim Crow etiquette rather than Jim Crow law?

a)

white drivers have the right of way at all intersections

b)

white teachers could be fined for teaching racially mixed classrooms

c)

black should never laugh at a white person

d)

buses had to operate separate ticket counters and waiting rooms for blacks and whites

e)

blacks could never call whites directly by their first names