WorksheetsTexas Reconstruction Task Cards
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the name for a change to the Constitution?
bill
amendment
charge
law
What do people do in a free enterprise system?
work for the government
own their own businesses
buy government goods
buy what they are told to
What holiday celebrates the day enslaved people in Texas found out they were free?
4th of July
Cinco de Mayo
Junetheenth
Diez y Seis
What is the name for the time period following the Civil War?
slavery
abolitionism
modern
reconstruction
What set of laws that limited rights continued to be enforced even after enslaved people were freed?
Jim Crowe Laws
The Bill of Rights
the Compromise of 1850
Lewis' Laws
What do you call keeping people separated based on skin color?
slavery
abolitionism
segregation
freedom
Who announced to Texas that enslaved people had to be freed and the Civil War was over?
Abraham Lincoln
General Granger
General Jackson
Jefferson Davis
What group worked to help formerly enslaved people find a place to live and work?
carpetbaggers
abolitionist
The Farmer's Bureau
The Freedman's Bureau
The Freedman's Bureau did all the the following EXCEPT:
published phone books
opened hospitals
found jobs
opened schools
Who became president when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
John Wilkes Booth
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Jefferson Davis
What did the 13th amendment do?
equal rights for citizens
abolish slavery
women's suffrage
voting age of 18
What did the 14th amendment do?
equal rights for citizens
abolish slavery
women's suffrage
voting age of 18
What is the name for a person that grows crops on someone else's land and gives them a portion?
an enslaved person
abolitionist
scalawag
sharecropper
Who were the northerners that traveled to the south to open businesses and run for political office?
scalawags
abolitionists
enslaved people
carpetbaggers
What is the official count of people taken every ten years?
census
Jim Crowe Laws
The great count
elections
What document freed the slaves in the Confederacy?
Declaration of Independence
Constitution
Emancipation Proclamation
Juneteenth
What does it mean to nullify something?
approve
cancel
reject
delay
What does it mean to ratify something?
reject
approve
cancel
delay
What is the negative name used for southerners who supported the Union in the Civil War?
carpetbaggers
abolitionists
scalawag
Jim Crowe
What year did the Civil War end?
1865
1863
1864
1866
