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Texas Reconstruction Task Cards

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name for a change to the Constitution?

a)

bill

b)

amendment

c)

charge

d)

law

2.

What do people do in a free enterprise system?

a)

work for the government

b)

own their own businesses

c)

buy government goods

d)

buy what they are told to

3.

What holiday celebrates the day enslaved people in Texas found out they were free?

a)

4th of July

b)

Cinco de Mayo

c)

Junetheenth

d)

Diez y Seis

4.

What is the name for the time period following the Civil War?

a)

slavery

b)

abolitionism

c)

modern

d)

reconstruction

5.

What set of laws that limited rights continued to be enforced even after enslaved people were freed?

a)

Jim Crowe Laws

b)

The Bill of Rights

c)

the Compromise of 1850

d)

Lewis' Laws

6.

What do you call keeping people separated based on skin color?

a)

slavery

b)

abolitionism

c)

segregation

d)

freedom

7.

Who announced to Texas that enslaved people had to be freed and the Civil War was over?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

General Granger

c)

General Jackson

d)

Jefferson Davis

8.

What group worked to help formerly enslaved people find a place to live and work?

a)

carpetbaggers

b)

abolitionist

c)

The Farmer's Bureau

d)

The Freedman's Bureau

9.

The Freedman's Bureau did all the the following EXCEPT:

a)

published phone books

b)

opened hospitals

c)

found jobs

d)

opened schools

10.

Who became president when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?

a)

John Wilkes Booth

b)

George Washington

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

Jefferson Davis

11.

What did the 13th amendment do?

a)

equal rights for citizens

b)

abolish slavery

c)

women's suffrage

d)

voting age of 18

12.

What did the 14th amendment do?

a)

equal rights for citizens

b)

abolish slavery

c)

women's suffrage

d)

voting age of 18

13.

What is the name for a person that grows crops on someone else's land and gives them a portion?

a)

an enslaved person

b)

abolitionist

c)

scalawag

d)

sharecropper

14.

Who were the northerners that traveled to the south to open businesses and run for political office?

a)

scalawags

b)

abolitionists

c)

enslaved people

d)

carpetbaggers

15.

What is the official count of people taken every ten years?

a)

census

b)

Jim Crowe Laws

c)

The great count

d)

elections

16.

What document freed the slaves in the Confederacy?

a)

Declaration of Independence

b)

Constitution

c)

Emancipation Proclamation

d)

Juneteenth

17.

What does it mean to nullify something?

a)

approve

b)

cancel

c)

reject

d)

delay

18.

What does it mean to ratify something?

a)

reject

b)

approve

c)

cancel

d)

delay

19.

What is the negative name used for southerners who supported the Union in the Civil War?

a)

carpetbaggers

b)

abolitionists

c)

scalawag

d)

Jim Crowe

20.

What year did the Civil War end?

a)

1865

b)

1863

c)

1864

d)

1866