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HISTORY RECONSTRUCTION QUIZIZZ

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were the black codes?

a)

The black codes laid out the process for readmitting Southern States into the Union.

b)

The black codes were laws passed by Southern States that limited the freedom of African Americans.

c)

The black codes were laws that made African Americans wealthy

d)

The black codes gave unlimited power to the whites

2.

Which of the following BEST describes the 14th amendment?

a)

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes

b)

Granted African American men the right to vote

c)

Prevent people limiting others’ rights.

d)

Gave the right to bear arms

3.

What is the purpose of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?

a)

The Acts of 1867 outlawed criminal codes

b)

The Acts of 1867 laid out the process for readmitting Southern States into the Union.

c)

The Acts of 1867 made it illegal for Northern people to move south.

d)

The Acts of 1867 ended the era of reconstruction

4.

Describe the 13th amendment

a)

Prevent people limiting others’ rights.

b)

Imposes restrictions on the government's prosecution

c)

Protect citizens' rights to the ownership and use of their property without intrusion by the government.

d)

Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

5.

What are Scalawags?

a)

Scalawags were former Confederates that resented pro-Union people.

b)

Scalawags were Northern white men who moved to the south.

c)

Scalawags were immigrants from foreign countries.

6.

Who won the election of 1868?

(a)  

7.

What was the 15th amendment?

a)

The 15th amendment took away African Americans rights

b)

The 15th amendment stated that people had to take literacy tests to vote

c)

The 15th amendment stated that African American men had the right to vote. It ended the Reconstruction.

d)

The 15th amendment stated that African Americans couldn't live in the US

8.

How did the Era of Reconstruction succeed? (Select all that apply)

a)

Unified the US once again

b)

Settled states rights vs. federalism debate

c)

Scandals and radicals

d)

Sharecropping

9.

What caused the Era of Reconstruction to fail? (Select all that apply)

a)

Sharecropping

b)

Radical Republicans

c)

Scandals

10.

What were the results of Jim Crows Laws? (Select all that apply)

a)

Promoted segregation

b)

Anti-slavery

c)

Seperate but equal

d)

Literacy tests

11.

What did the Amnesty Act of 1872 do?

a)

The Amnesty Act of 1872 reversed many of the penalties on the Confederates.

b)

The Amnesty Act of 1872 gave more power to the Union.

c)

The Amnesty Act of 1872 stopped the military from monitoring the South.

12.

What did the Klu Klux Klan do? (Select all that apply)

a)

Terrorized African Americans and Republican voters

b)

Wanted to help protect African American rights to vote

c)

Tried taking away African American voting rights.

d)

Wanted to protect African Americans

13.

What ended the Era of Reconstruction?

a)

13th amendment

b)

14th amendment

c)

15th amendment

d)

The Election of 1876

e)

Jim Crows Law

14.

What was the Freedmen's Bureau?

a)

Freedmen's Bureau laid out the process for readmitting Southern States into the Union.

b)

The Freedmen's Bureau created radical reconstruction.

c)

The Freedmen’s Bureau was created to help former slaves by educating and helping them financially.

d)

The Freedmen's Bureau created slavery once again.

15.

A cycle of debt & "new slavery" (Fill in the blanks)

(a)  

16.

What year was President Lincoln assassinated?

a)

1865

b)

1866

c)

1864

d)

1895

17.

Who were Carpetbaggers?

a)

Northerners during reconstruction

b)

Northerners who moved into the South during reconstruction

c)

Southerners during reconstruction

d)

Westerners during reconstruction

18.

Which president succeeded President Ulysses S. Grant?

a)

James Garfield

b)

Rutherford B. Hayes

c)

Andrew Johnson

d)

Donald Trump

19.

Southerners resisted against... (Select all that apply)

a)

Political power in the hands of African Americans.

b)

Republicans leading Southern politics.

c)

The large amounts of money being spent by Southern reconstruction governments that came from raising taxes.

d)

The North, Congress, the President, military presence, etc...

20.

Which president succeeded President Lincoln?

a)

James Monroe

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

Andrew Johnson

d)

James Garfield

21.

Which definition best describes the word amnesty?

a)

Penalties

b)

A pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.

c)

A punishment imposed for breaking a law

d)

Punishment

22.

What did the Enforcement Acts do? (Select all that apply)

a)

Helped protect African American rights to vote.

b)

Helped protect African American rights to hold position in office.

c)

Helped protect African American rights to serve on juries.

d)

Helped protect African American rights receive equal protection of the laws.

23.

What did the Radical Republicans press for? (Select all that apply)

a)

Slavery

b)

Disenfranchisement of Confederates

c)

Black Suffrage

d)

Impeachement of President Andrew Johnson

24.

Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?

a)

For being too nice to everybody

b)

For high crimes and misdemeanors

c)

Stealing

d)

Because he wanted to

25.

What was ONE of the MAIN reasons why Carpetbaggers wanted to move into the South?

a)

Felt like it

b)

Interested in new business

c)

Didn't want to support slavery

d)

Wanted to be a white Southerner

26.

Which amendment ended slavery?

a)

12th amendment

b)

14th amendment

c)

13th amendment

d)

15th amendment

27.

Why did Congress reject Louisiana’s new constitution in 1864?

a)

Andrew Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction

b)

It was drafted according to the Ten-Percent Plan

c)

It gave blacks the right to vote

d)

Alll of the above

28.

All of the following were components of Lincoln’s blueprint for Reconstruction except...

a)

Full pardons for all white southerners, except high-ranking military and government officials

b)

A promise to protect all private property, excluding slaves

c)

Black Suffrage

d)

Readmission to the Union when 10percent of voters pledged their allegiance to the United States

29.

Which constitutional amendment did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 most closely resemble?

a)

12th amendment

b)

13th amendment

c)

14th amendment

d)

15th amendment

30.

14. Which U.S. Supreme Court decision did the Fourteenth Amendment reverse?

a)

Dred Scott v. Sanford

b)

United States v. Cruikshank

c)

The Slaughterhouse Cases

d)

The Civil Rights Cases