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WorksheetsReconstruction 1860-1870
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Who was the President when Reconstruction began?
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Thaddeus Stevens
Ulysses S. Grant
What was the purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
To give former slaves the right to vote.
To give women the right to vote.
To grant citizenship to anyone born in the United States.
To abolish slavery.
Reconstruction in 1865-1867 was:
building New York city.
building major roads from New York to Illinois.
building the Suez Canal.
the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union.
Andrew Johnson belonged to which political party?
The Whigs
The Republican
The Democrat
The Independent
Who was the President during the Civil War?
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Who received the land that had once been plantations worked by slaves?
the government
the freed slaves
sharecroppers
the original plantation owners
The Wade-Davis bill asked for the following:
a state had to ban slavery, and a majority of adult males in the state had to take a loyalty oath to the Union. Only Southerners who had never supported the Confederacy could vote or hold office..
a state had to agree that slavery was illegal, and take a loyalty oath to the union, once 10 percent agreed that state could be admitted into the Union.
The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau was to: ( more than one answer can be correct)
to educate the recently freed people.
provide relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South.
to provide legal help to recently freed people..
take people to northern cities after the war.
The purpose of the 14th Amendment was to:
grant citizenship to all people born in the United States.
give every citizen the right to vote.
abolish slavery
Which people were excluded in the Fourteenth Amendment?
Women
African Americans
Native Americans
Confederate Loyalists
The Fifteenth Amendment gave:
women the right to vote
Native American men the right to vote
African American men the right to vote.
Which President during Reconstruction was impeached by the House of Representatives?
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Thaddeus Stevens
Who was the first African American man to serve as a U.S. Senator?
Blanche K. Bruce
W.E.B. Du Bois
Hiram Revels
The Reconstruction divided the South into what types of districts?
Parishes
Regional
Wards
Military
Which states became Military districts during Reconstruction?
Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee
New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Florida
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri
California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah
