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The Successes and Failures of the Era of Reconstruction

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which organization helped newly freed slaves by setting up crucial places such as hospitals and schools?

a)

Ku Klux Klan

b)

Freedmen's Bureau

c)

American Red Cross

d)

Direct Relief

2.

Which US President was a White Supremacist that pardoned over 7,000 former Confederate officials, and made many of the old Confederate government officials "new ones"?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

John Adams

c)

George Washington

d)

Andrew Johnson

3.

Which was NOT one of the purposes of Black Codes?

a)

Limit rights of Freedmen (former slaves)

b)

Help planters find new workforce

c)

Limit the rights of wealthy southerners'

d)

Keep Freedmen at bottom of social pyramid

4.

Radical Republicans wanted to

a)

give African Americans the right to vote

b)

make the South rich

c)

treat the South as conquered territory

d)

end equality

5.

Which Amendments were passed during the Era of Reconstruction?

a)

12th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

c)

14th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

6.

Which Amendment abolished slavery?

a)

14th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

7.

Which Amendment gave all people born in the US citizenship, protection/rights under Constitution, equal protection under the law.

a)

14th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

8.

The 14th Amendment applied to all people, except which group?

a)

Freed slaves

b)

Women

9.

Which Amendment meant that states’ citizens cannot be stopped from voting based on race, African American men given the right to vote.

a)

17th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

10.

During the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867, how many military districts did Congress divide the South into?

a)

3

b)

5

c)

7

d)

9

11.

During the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867, Congress made is so that to re-enter the Union states must

a)

Give the right to vote to all men

b)

Ratify the 15th Amendment

c)

Ratify the 14th Amendment

d)

End Segregation

12.

Which was a success of the Reconstruction?

a)

Segregation

b)

13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

c)

Ku Klux Klan

d)

Black Codes

13.

What were failures of the Reconstruction?

a)

Share Cropping

b)

Black Codes

c)

Ku Klux Klan

d)

Jim Crow Laws

14.

A Failure of the Reconstruction, which were laws that segregated public spaces.

a)

Election of 1868

b)

Share Cropping

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

The Enforcement Acts

15.

Although Freed Slaves were given the right to vote, which policies did Southern Governments enforce to discourage them from voting?

a)

Literacy Tests

b)

Science Tests

c)

Presidential Tests

d)

Poll Taxes

16.

Another Failure of Reconstruction was an American White Supremacist Hate Group that used violence and intimidation to frighten blacks away from voting. They attacked African Americans, burned homes, burned churches, and killed people, often by “lynching” or hanging from trees.

a)

Radical Republicans

b)

Ku Klux Klan

17.

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

a)

Carpetbaggers

b)

Scalawags

18.

A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used derisively by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation.

a)

CarpetBaggers

b)

Scalawags

19.

A success of the Reconstruction that made it illegal to interfere with the right to vote, by using federal marshals to supervise southern elections.

a)

The Reconstruction Acts

b)

The Enforcement Acts

c)

The Voting Acts

d)

The Interference Acts

20.

What year did the Reconstruction start and end?

a)

1864-1879

b)

1880-1882

c)

1867-1879

d)

1865-1877