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reconstruction

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Black Codes were designed to do all of the following EXCEPT _________.

a)

Prohibit African Americans from finding a job or buying a house.

b)

Limit the physical freedom of former enslaved African Americans.

c)

Limit the economic freedom of former enslaved African Americans.

d)

Aid former enslaved African Americans.

2.

After Reconstruction, laws that included segregation were called _________.

a)

Immigration Laws

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Black Codes

d)

Civil Rights Laws

3.

What amendment ended slavery?

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

b)

13th Amendment

c)

14th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

4.

What rights did the 14th amendment give people?

a)

Gave help to African Americans by giving them jobs and education.

b)

Gave citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.

c)

ended slavery in the United States and all of its territories.

d)

Gave male citizens the right to vote.

5.

Which amendment is shown in the picture?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

6.

Which group was removed from the South at the end of Reconstruction because of the compromise of 1877?

a)

Southern military leaders

b)

Public officials

c)

Slaves

d)

Federal troops

7.

What ended reconstruction because Rutherford B Hayes was president?

a)

Compromise of 1877

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

c)

Ku Klux Klan

d)

Jim Crow Laws

8.

What is this headline an example of?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

9.

This gave all men no matter their race the right to vote.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

10.

The 13th Amendment

a)

gave former slaves citizenship

b)

gave former slaves the right to vote

c)

gave slaves their freedom

d)

gave women the right to vote

11.

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution ...

a)

abolished slavery

b)

gave former slaves their citizenship

c)

gave former slaves the right to vote

d)

gave women the right to own property

12.

One of the goals of the KKK was

a)

help former slaves vote in elections

b)

stop former slaves from voting in elections

c)

help former soldiers adjust to life at home

d)

stop women from voting

13.

What Supreme Court case decided "separate but equal" was legal?

a)

Texas vs. Johnson

b)

Tinker vs. DesMoines

c)

Brown vs. Board of Education

d)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

14.

What areas were racially segregated?

a)

Schools

b)

Housing

c)

Public Transportation

d)

All of these answers

15.

Who were sharecroppers?

a)

Factory workers

b)

former slaves that shared the crops with white plantation owners

c)

people who traveled west to mine for gold

16.

The 15th Amendment:

a)

banned slavery

b)

gave former slaves citzenship

c)

granted all male citizens the right to vote

17.

The Freedman's Bureau:

a)

freed the slaves

b)

helped feed, clothe, and provide medical care to former slaves

c)

kept slaves from escaping the South

18.

Which side fought for slavery during the Civil War?

a)

Confederacy

b)

Union

c)

French

d)

British

19.

Who was the President during the Civil War?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

Thomas Jefferson

20.

When is Juneteenth celebrated?

a)

June 20th

b)

July 4th

c)

June 19th

21.

What is being celebrated on Juneteenth?

a)

America's Freedom

b)

Freedom from Slavery

c)

Fireworks

22.

After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated who became president?

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

John Adams

c)

Rutherford B. Hayes

d)

Franklin Roosevelt

23.

African American voter disenfranchisement (taking away right to vote) was done in all of these ways EXCEPT

a)

Poll Taxes

b)

Literacy Tests

c)

Violence against African American voters

d)

the passing of the 15th Amendment

24.

A tax an individual had to pay before they were allowed to vote in an election.

a)

A Grandfather Tax

b)

A Poll Tax

c)

A Slave Code Tax

d)

a Civics Tax

25.

The arrival of this domestic terrorist organization caused the deaths of thousands of newly freed Black Americans trying to use their new right to vote.

a)

The Radical Republicans

b)

The Ku Klux Klan

c)

The Democratic Leaders of the South

d)

the Abolitionists

26.

Reconstruction ended when ___________________ was elected

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Rutherford B Hayes

d)

Woodrow Wilson