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Reconstruction American Republic Test Study Guide

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


White Southerners who supported Reconstruction

a)

Scalawags

b)

10 Percent Plan

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Wade-Davis Bill

e)

Reconstruction Act of 1867

2.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction

a)

Scalawags

b)

10 Percent Plan

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Wade-Davis Bill

e)

Reconstruction Act of 1867

3.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


considered by many to be Northern opportunists

a)

Scalawags

b)

10 Percent Plan

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Wade-Davis Bill

e)

Reconstruction Act of 1867

4.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction

a)

Scalawags

b)

10 Percent Plan

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Wade-Davis Bill

e)

Reconstruction Act of 1867

5.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


Divided the South into military districts

a)

Scalawags

b)

10 Percent Plan

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Wade-Davis Bill

e)

Reconstruction Act of 1867

6.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


congressional committee formed by moderate and Radical Republicans

a)

Joint Committee on Reconstruction

b)

General Amnesty Act

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1875

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

e)

Tenure of Office Act

7.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


pardoned former Confederates

a)

Joint Committee on Reconstruction

b)

General Amnesty Act

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1875

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

e)

Tenure of Office Act

8.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


guaranteed equality in public places without providing enforcement

a)

Joint Committee on Reconstruction

b)

General Amnesty Act

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1875

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

e)

Tenure of Office Act

9.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


gave African Americans full citizenship

a)

Joint Committee on Reconstruction

b)

General Amnesty Act

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1875

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

e)

Tenure of Office Act

10.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


violation of this act led to Johnson's impeachment

a)

Joint Committee on Reconstruction

b)

General Amnesty Act

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1875

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

e)

Tenure of Office Act

11.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


designed to keep freed slaves in subjection and prevent them from exercising their political rights

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Amnesty

c)

Fourteenth Amendment

d)

Black Codes

e)

Fifteenth Amendment

12.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


granted African Americans citizenship

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Amnesty

c)

Fourteenth Amendment

d)

Black Codes

e)

Fifteenth Amendment

13.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


a group pardon

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Amnesty

c)

Fourteenth Amendment

d)

Black Codes

e)

Fifteenth Amendment

14.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


kept states from denying African Americans the right to vote

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Amnesty

c)

Fourteenth Amendment

d)

Black Codes

e)

Fifteenth Amendment

15.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


Abolished Slavery

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Amnesty

c)

Fourteenth Amendment

d)

Black Codes

e)

Fifteenth Amendment

16.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


Won the disputed election of 1876

a)

Rutherford B. Hayes

b)

William Seward

c)

Thaddeus Stevens

d)

Edwin Stanton

e)

Andrew Johnson

17.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


secretary of war who refused to leave office

a)

Rutherford B. Hayes

b)

William Seward

c)

Thaddeus Stevens

d)

Edwin Stanton

e)

Andrew Johnson

18.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


leader of Radical Republicans in the House

a)

Rutherford B. Hayes

b)

William Seward

c)

Thaddeus Stevens

d)

Edwin Stanton

e)

Andrew Johnson

19.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


Impeached in 1868

a)

Rutherford B. Hayes

b)

William Seward

c)

Thaddeus Stevens

d)

Edwin Stanton

e)

Andrew Johnson

20.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


Negotiated the treaty to buy "Frigidia"

a)

Rutherford B. Hayes

b)

William Seward

c)

Thaddeus Stevens

d)

Edwin Stanton

e)

Andrew Johnson

21.

When the Civil War ended, the South was left to suffer all of the following problems except . . .

a)

An inadequate labor force

b)

Large numbers of immigrants

c)

Severe property damage

d)

A lack of money

22.

The Radical Republicans objected's to all of the following except . . .

a)

The extension of executive powers during the Civil War

b)

Treatment of the South as erring brethren rather than a conquered foreign nation

c)

the Wade-Davis Bill

d)

Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan

23.

The Fourteenth Amendment did all of the following except . . .

a)

bar unpardoned Confederates from voting or holding office

b)

put the South under martial law

c)

give citizenship to blacks

d)

eliminate the Three-Fifths Compromise in the counting of the population

24.

The law that established military rule in the South was the . . .

a)

Reconstruction Act of 1867

b)

Tenure of Office Act

c)

Thirteenth Amendment

d)

Wade-Davis Bill

25.

The Radical leader in the Senate was . . .

a)

Charles Sumner

b)

Thaddeus Stevens

c)

Edwin Stanton

d)

Samuel J. Tilden

26.

President Johnson was impeached for his supposed violation of the . . .

a)

Reconstruction Act of 1867

b)

Tenure of Office Act

c)

Fifteenth Amendment

d)

Wade-Davis Bill

27.

Achievements in foreign affairs during the administration of Andrew Johnson included all of the following except . . .

a)

purchasing Alaska

b)

Removing European rule in Mexico

c)

Signing a treaty with China

d)

Making the Gadsden Purchase

28.

Who won the presidential election of 1868?

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

William Seward

d)

Horatio Seymour

e)

Rutherford B. Hayes

29.

Whose administration was marked by political corruption?

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Horatio Seymour

e)

Rutherford B. Hayes

30.

Bourbon Reconstruction was characterized by the . . .

a)

rule of the South by carpetbaggers, scalawags, and freedmen

b)

return of Southern Democrats to power in government

c)

granting of equal rights to blacks

d)

establishment of martial law in the South

31.

The presidential election of 1876 was unusual in that it was . . .

a)

the first election in which African Americans were given the right to vote

b)

won by the first Democrat to hold the office since the Civil War

c)

held two weeks later than usual

d)

settled by a special electoral commission

32.

What term was used for former slaves following the Civil War?

a)

Scalawags

b)

10 Percent Plan

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Wade-Davis Bill

e)

Freedmen

33.

What are the dates of the twelve-year period called Reconstruction?

a)

1865-1877

b)

1867-1875

c)

1861-1876

d)

1863-1874

e)

1877-1901

34.

What is the name for the group that resisted Lincoln and Johnson's plans for the Reconstruction?

a)

Scalawags

b)

Radical Republicans

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Wade-Davis Bill

e)

Freedmen

35.

What is the term for a group pardon?

a)

Scalawags

b)

Black Codes

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Amnesty

e)

Freedmen

36.

Which constitutional amendment abolished slavery?

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Sixteenth Amendment

c)

Fourteenth Amendment

d)

Twelfth Amendment

e)

Fifteenth Amendment

37.

What was the name of the laws passed in the South to keep the freed slaves restricted to an inferior position in Southern society?

a)

Scalawags

b)

Black Codes

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Amnesty

e)

Freedmen

38.

What federal relief agency was established to help the freed slaves in the South?

a)

Scalawags

b)

Black Codes

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Amnesty

e)

Freedman's Bureau

39.

What term was applied to Northerners who came south to take advantage of the situation in the South during Reconstruction?

a)

Scalawags

b)

Black Codes

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Amnesty

e)

Freedman's Bureau

40.

What term was applied to White Southerners who supported Radical Reconstruction?

a)

Scalawags

b)

Black Codes

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Amnesty

e)

Freedman's Bureau

41.

What bill did Congress pass to keep President Johnson from dismissing Radical Republican presidential appointees?

a)

Joint Committee on Reconstruction

b)

General Amnesty Act

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1875

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

e)

Tenure of Office Act

42.

Who was the secretary of war who refused to leave office when Johnson dismissed him?

a)

Rutherford B. Hayes

b)

William Seward

c)

Thaddeus Stevens

d)

Edwin Stanton

e)

Andrew Johnson

43.

What European country violated the Monroe Doctrine during the Civil War?

a)

France

b)

England

c)

Germany

d)

Spain

e)

Italy

44.

Napoleon III sent Maximilian to be emperor of what country?

a)

Mexico

b)

Colombia

c)

Venezuela

d)

Costa Rica

e)

Guatemala

45.

Who followed Andrew Johnson in the presidency?

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

William Seward

d)

Horatio Seymour

e)

Rutherford B. Hayes

46.

What did the House of Representatives do to President Johnson after he had dismissed his secretary of war?

a)

Impeached Him

b)

Beat Him

c)

Fired Him

d)

Yelled at Him

e)

Spit at Him

47.

Which constitutional amendment guaranteed African Americans the right to vote?

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Sixteenth Amendment

c)

Fourteenth Amendment

d)

Twelfth Amendment

e)

Fifteenth Amendment

48.

What agricultural economic system developed in the South after the Civil War?

a)

Scalawags

b)

Mill Towns

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Sharecropping

e)

Ku Klux Klan

49.

What was the name for the communities that were built around Southern textile industries?

a)

Scalawags

b)

Mill Towns

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Sharecropping

e)

Ku Klux Klan

50.

What secret organization arose in the South after the Civil War to frighten African Americans and discourage them from voting and running for political office?

a)

Scalawags

b)

Mill Towns

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Sharecropping

e)

Ku Klux Klan

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