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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
What was the result of the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Southern military leaders were allowed to run for public office
Sharecropping became popular in northern states
African Americans gained equal rights
Plantations were given to former slaves
Which statement should be placed in the box labeled with the number 2?
Ensures all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Bans slavery in the United States and all of its territories.
Grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law.
Guarantees employment to all previous slaves.
Robert E. Lee would have most likely urged Southerners to do what following the conclusion of the Civil War?
Urge Southerners to reunite with the Union as Americans
Support the institution of Black Codes
To keep fighting against the Union
Side with those who wanted to continue to fight.
Which group of people does the picture and quote above make reference to during the Reconstruction Era?
Freed African Americans
Carpetbaggers
Southern military leaders
Northern politicians
Frederick Douglass fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed _________.
Voting rights
Freedom of speech
Right to bear arms
Freedom of religion
Which of the following describes African Americans AFTER the Civil War?
Carpetbaggers
Enslaved
Citizens
Scalawags
Black Codes were designed to do all of the following EXCEPT _________.
Prohibit African Americans from finding a job or buying a house.
Limit the physical freedom of former enslaved African Americans.
Limit the economic freedom of former enslaved African Americans.
Aid former enslaved African Americans.
After Reconstruction, the system of segregation was supported by _________.
Immigration Laws
Jim Crow Laws
Black Codes
Civil Rights Laws
Slavery was abolished with the passage of the _______.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Which of the following was a result of the 14th Amendment?
Provided aid to African Americans by giving them jobs and education.
Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
Abolished slavery in the United States and all of its territories.
Ensured male citizens the right to vote.
Who was more interested in preserving the Union than punishing the South?
Frederick Douglass
Susan B. Anthony
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Which amendment is illustrated in the picture?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
Which THREE amendments guarantee equal protection under the law for all citizens?
12th
13th
14th
15th
Following the Civil War, what was established to aid former enslaved African Americans in the South?
NAACP
Freedmen's Bureau
Black Codes
Temperance Movement
Which group was removed from the South at the end of Reconstruction?
Southern military leaders
Public officials
Slaves
Federal troops
What brought an end to Reconstruction after the disputed presidential election of Rutherford B. Hayes?
Compromise of 1877
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Ku Klux Klan
Jim Crow Laws
Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan called for ________ and preservation of the Union over punishing the South.
Emancipation
Reconciliation
Voting Rights
Segregation
Which of the following occurred after the Compromise of 1877? (CHOOSE THREE)
Reconstruction ended
Federal troops were removed from the South
African Americans held public office in the South
The Freedmen's Bureau was established
Rights that African Americans had gained were lost
Federal troops were authorized to enforce equal rights of African Americans under the ________.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Compromise of 1877
13th Amendment
Black Codes
What is this headline referring to?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Freedmen's Bureau
