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Reconstruction Quiz Review

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
This amendment abolished slavery. 
a)
12th 
b)
13th 
c)
14th
d)
15th
2.
This amendment says all male citizens can now vote.
a)
13th
b)
15th
c)
19th
d)
23rd
3.
This group helped newly freed slaves with food, medical care, jobs, housing and schooling. 
a)
Sharecropping
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
Reconstruction
d)
Freedmen's Bureau 
4.
Segregation  means .......
a)
separation based on race
b)
separation based on gender
c)
coming together 
d)
get rid of
5.
Jim Crow laws legally segregated African Americans and white people.
a)
True
b)
False
6.
What did the 14th Amendment do?
a)
made slavery illegal
b)
made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
c)
gave black men the right to vote
d)
gave former slaves land to begin farms
7.
What was Reconstruction?
a)
equal treatment for all people
b)
the forced separation of races
c)
a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
d)
the period of time after the Civil War
8.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
a)
equal treatment for all people
b)
laws that made segregation legal
c)
a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
d)
the period of time after the Civil War
9.

Name given to Northern whites who moved south after the Civil War and supported the Republicans.

a)

Scalawag

b)

Radical Republican

c)

Carpetbagger

d)

Freedmen

10.

The granting of pardon to a large number of persons, protection from prosecution for an illegal act.

a)

Segregation

b)

Amnesty

c)

Freedmen

d)

Impeachment

11.

A article that allowed individuals who did not pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction began.

a)

Poll Tax

b)

Black Codes

c)

Grandfather Clause

d)

Jim Crow Laws

12.

A tax of a fixed amount per persons that had to be paid before the person could vote.

a)

Poll Tax

b)

Literacy Test

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Grandfather Clause

13.

A method used to prevent African Americans from voting by requiring prospective voters to read and write at a specific level.

a)

Poll Tax

b)

Grandfather Clause

c)

Black Codes

d)

Literacy Test

14.
This African-American demanded full political, civil, and social rights to his people, so he started the NAACP
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
W.E.B. DuBois
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Frederick Douglass
15.
Whites Only Water Fountain .... this sign represents what laws in the South
a)
Racial Rules
b)
Lincoln Laws
c)
Black Codes 
d)
Jim Crow
16.

Which African American leader wanted vocational education?

a)

W.E.B. Dubois

b)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Booker T. Washington

17.
Plessy v. Ferguson said it was ok to 
a)
discriminate against African Americans
b)
create separate but equal public settings
c)
create poorer quality settings for African Americans
18.

What areas were racially segregated?

a)

Schools

b)

Housing

c)

Public Transportation

d)

All of these answers

19.
-Born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia -Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education -Organized the Tuskegee Institute for agricultural and industrial education
a)
W.E.B. Du Bois
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
d)
Booker T. Washington
20.

Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois both agreed

a)

white people are superior

b)

the telephone is the best invention

c)

Education for African-Americans is important

d)

Equal rights for all

21.

Booker T Washington

a)

was born rich

b)

equality for all

c)

believed education was not important

d)

was principal of the Tuskegee Institute

22.

In 1909, who helped found the NAACP?

a)

Booker T Washington

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

WEB DuBois

d)

Thomas Edison

23.

The event that marked the end of the Reconstruction Era is the Election of 1876.

a)

True

b)

False

24.
What famous phrase came out of the Plessy case?
a)
"Separate but equal"
b)
"Give me liberty or give me death."
c)
"May the force be with you."
d)
"I'll be back."
25.

The Plessy v. Ferguson case had what impact on the U.S.?

a)

It legalized Jim Crow Laws throughout the U.S.

b)

It made Jim Crow Laws illegal throughout the U.S.

c)

It created more equality

d)

It repealed the 14th Amendment

26.

One problem with the idea of "separate but equal" was that the separate facilities for black people were almost never truly _______________.

a)

national

b)

federal

c)

equal

d)

unequal

27.
What was the result of the case?
a)
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.
b)
The Supreme Court never made a ruling.
c)
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.
d)
Plessy never took the case to the Supreme Court.