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Reconstruction

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The (a)   Amendment abolished slavery in the US.

2.

Which of the following Amendment said that the right to vote could not be denied to anyone on account of race.

a)

the 14th

b)

the 13th

c)

the 15th

d)

the 16th

3.

Southern states used ________________ tests and __________ ________ to prevent African Americans from voting.

a)

Constitution, fried chicken stands

b)

literacy, poll taxes

c)

math, long lines

d)

history, scary librarians

4.

Laws that restricted the freedom of African Americans are called___________ _________.

a)

Black Codes

b)

property laws

c)

water laws

d)

the 14th Amendment

5.

Those who favored less punishment for the South and less Federal Government involvement in Reconstruction were called...

a)

Radical Republicans

b)

Moderate Republicans

c)

Southern Democrats

d)

Freedmen

6.

Those who favored more Federal Government intervention in Reconstruction and punishing the South after the Civil War were called...

a)

Moderate Republicans

b)

KKK members

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Radical Republicans

7.

A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

a)

Carpetbagger

b)

Scalawag

c)

KKK member

d)

Jerk

8.

A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit.

a)

KKK member

b)

Scalawag

c)

Carpetbagger

d)

Moderate Republican

9.

The secret society or "invisible empire" aimed to restore Democratic control to the South and keep former slaves powerless.

a)

The Radical Republicans

b)

The Ku Klux Klan

c)

The JJJ

d)

The CCC

10.

This system of farming left the land depleted and most farmers in a cycle of debt.

a)

Radical Reconstruction

b)

40 Acres and a Mule

c)

Pay Day loan sharks

d)

sharecropping

11.

This Amendment spelled out citizenship in the US as well as attempting to establish equal treatment before the law.

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

16th

12.

The Supreme Court Case __________ established the principle of separate but equal.

a)

Brown V Board of Education

b)

Plessy V Ferguson

c)

McCullough V Maryland

d)

Taco v Burger

13.

This was a financial crisis that helped to turn the nation's attention away from Reconstruction.

a)

The Compromise of 1877

b)

The Election of 1876

c)

The Anti Klan Bill

d)

The Panic of 1873

14.

This agreement effectively ended Reconstruction, allowed Rutherford B Hayes to become President and allowed Southern Democrats to re-establish control in the South

a)

The Compromise of 1877

b)

The Civil Rights Act of 1875

c)

The Affordable Care Act

d)

The New Deal

15.

17th President who was impeached and pushed around by Radical Republicans

a)

Lincoln

b)

Jackson

c)

Johnson

d)

Grant

16.

He was the Civil War hero and 18th President whose administration was hampered by scandal and financial crisis

a)

Ulysses S Grant

b)

Rutherford B Hayes

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Andrew Johnson