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WorksheetsReconstruction Review
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 47mins
During Radical Reconstruction, traditionally white Southern Democrats
had more power than ever before
enjoyed economic success
had less influence and power than most others
united to reform the Confederate government
The first African American elected to Congress was
Hiram Revels
Thurgood Marshall
Blanche Bruce
Crispus Attucks
Freed the slaves legally except as a punishment for a crime
Fifteenth Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Thirteenth Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
Fifteenth Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Fourteenth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
Guaranteed that state and federal governments could not deny anyone the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Fifteenth Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
The Civil Rights Act of 1866
Thirteenth Amendment
Former slaves becoming hopelessly entangled in a cycle of debt and poverty was a result of the
Morrill Act
Dawes Act
sharecropping system
corruption and greed of Radical Republicans
Black Codes were designed to
punish Southern white Democrats after the Civil War
oppose the effects of the Thirteenth Amendment
help establish the Freedmen's Bureau
assist Radical Republicans in creating military districts
Control of Black Americans in the South was maintained by which group during Reconstruction?
Sharecroppers
The KKK and the Red Shirts
Radical Republicans
Union troops
As freed slaves and African Americans began to enjoy rights under Reconstruction, which group began with the primary goal of interfering with these changes?
Ku Klux Klan
Freedmen's Bureau
Radical Republicans
Disciples of John Brown
Reconstruction is considered to have ended with the
passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
election of Rutherford B. Hayes
Who took the office of President after President Lincoln was assassinated?
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
Who wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?
Democrats
Radical Republicans
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
How did the Election of 1876 contribute to the end Reconstruction in the South?
Samuel Tilden was elected President
Hayes withdrew the military from the south
Ex-Confederates were forgiven and allowed to vote again.
Andrew Johnson was impeached.
Which president was not in favor of rights for Black Americans?
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysees S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Thaddeus Stevens
What was the Tenure of Office Act?
State protection of all citizens
Provided an organization to help increase living standards for African Americans
Illegal for president to remove cabinet members he did not appoint
Divide South into five military regions
Johnson was impeached for violating what law? Was he found guilty?
Tenure of Office Act, No he was found not-guilty by one vote
Reconstruction Act, No he was found not-guilty by more than one vote
Tenure of Office Act, Yes he was impeached.
Reconstruction Act, Yes he was impeached.
What two types of people did the KKK target during Reconstruction?
Republicans
African Americans
Democrats
Catholics
The first congressional law protecting racial minorities was the
Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteenth Amendment
15th Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1866
What was the purpose of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
To set up schools in the south for Black Americans
It granted Black Americans equal protection under the law.
It divided the south into military districts, which were watched by Union troops.
It ended Reconstruction.
All of the following are reasons President Johnson provided amnesty for the south, EXCEPT...
He did not believe in racial equality
He was a Democrat
He was a southerner
He believed in justice and punishment
Why is the election of 1876 referred to as the "Great Betrayal"?
Because Republicans abandoned Reconstruction to maintain control of the executive branch of government.
Because southerners were denied their right to vote.
Because Black Americans were allowed to vote twice in the election.
Because Democrats stole the election with rigged ballots.
Abraham Lincoln favored which strategy for Reconstruction?
Healing
Justice
Andrew Johnson favored which strategy for Reconstruction?
Healing
Justice
Thaddeus Stevens favored which policy during Reconstruction?
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
A full pardon and amnesty for all ex-confederates
The Black Codes
The Great Betrayal
Which of the following describes a sharecropper?
A white southerner who supported Reconstruction in the South
A northerner who moved to the South to take advantage of the poor economic and political situation
A former confederate soldier who would terrorize and intimidate former slaves to keep inferior
A former slave who remained on the plantation and worked in exchange for food and shelter
As white southerners regained control of state governments, they began to
refuse to pay war debts.
join the Republican Party.
reverse Reconstruction era reforms.
compensate former slaves.
A major failure of Reconstruction was that
racist attitudes continued in the North and South.
the South’s cotton production never recovered.
war debts remained unpaid.
no African Americans were voted into Congress.
The Radical Republicans passed a series of laws designed to
protect the civil rights of African Americans.
reestablish slavery in a different form.
unfairly tax the South.
prohibit free speech in the South.
