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WorksheetsThe Successes and Failures of the Era of Reconstruction
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which organization helped newly freed slaves by setting up crucial places such as hospitals and schools?
Ku Klux Klan
Freedmen's Bureau
American Red Cross
Direct Relief
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"?
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
George Washington
Andrew Johnson
Which was NOT one of the purposes of Black Codes?
Limit rights of Freedmen (former slaves)
Help planters find new workforce
Limit the rights of wealthy southerners'
Keep Freedmen at bottom of social pyramid
Radical Republicans wanted to
give African Americans the right to vote
make the South rich
treat the South as conquered territory
end equality
Which Amendments were passed during the Era of Reconstruction?
12th Amendment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Which Amendment abolished slavery?
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
Which Amendment gave all people born in the US citizenship, protection/rights under Constitution, equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
The 14th Amendment applied to all people, except which group?
Freed slaves
Women
Which Amendment meant that states’ citizens cannot be stopped from voting based on race, African American men given the right to vote.
17th Amendment
15th Amendment
During the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867, how many military districts did Congress divide the South into?
3
5
7
9
During the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867, Congress made is so that to re-enter the Union states must
Give the right to vote to all men
Ratify the 15th Amendment
Ratify the 14th Amendment
End Segregation
Which was a success of the Reconstruction?
Segregation
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Ku Klux Klan
Black Codes
What were failures of the Reconstruction?
Share Cropping
Black Codes
Ku Klux Klan
Jim Crow Laws
A Failure of the Reconstruction, which were laws that segregated public spaces.
Election of 1868
Share Cropping
Jim Crow Laws
The Enforcement Acts
Although Freed Slaves were given the right to vote, which policies did Southern Governments enforce to discourage them from voting?
Literacy Tests
Science Tests
Presidential Tests
Poll Taxes
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.
Radical Republicans
Ku Klux Klan
A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
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.
CarpetBaggers
Scalawags
A success of the Reconstruction that made it illegal to interfere with the right to vote, by using federal marshals to supervise southern elections.
The Reconstruction Acts
The Enforcement Acts
The Voting Acts
The Interference Acts
What year did the Reconstruction start and end?
1864-1879
1880-1882
1867-1879
1865-1877
