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WorksheetsQUIZIZZ: Reconstruction: 1865-1877
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 18mins
What were people called who were from the North and took advantage of the Southerners during Reconstruction?
Scalawags
Abolitionists
Carpetbaggers
Bourbons
Reconstruction came to an end when
the Black Codes were adopted.
a compromise took place over the 1876 election.
Lincoln was elected President.
Congress proposed the 13th Amendment.
What name was given to the laws passed by southern states that limited the economic and physical freedom of former slaves in the years immediately following the Civil War?
Jim Crow Laws
Blue Laws
Vagrancy Codes
Black Codes
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Define Citizenship
Ban Slavery
Grant Suffrage
Promote States Rights
The 14th Amendment
Grants citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
Ensures all persons born in the U.S.have the right to vote
Bans Slavery
Determines the Process by which the President and Vice President of the US are Elected
The 15th Amendment
Bans slavery in the United States and all of its territories
Guarantees the Right to keep and bear arms
Grants citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
Ensures all persons born in the U.S. have the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
Which of the following did the Freedmen's Bureau accomplish in the years immediately following the Civil War?
Provided an education for children to read and write
Donated clothing & food for the homeless
Trained adults for future jobs and careers
All of the Answers are Correct
Who was Abraham's Lincoln's vice president that became president after Lincoln's assassination?
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Jackson
John Brown
What was the OVERALL PURPOSE of the Reconstruction Period (1865-1877)?
Readmit the border states into the Confederate States of America
Prohibit discrimination among African Americans in the north and south
Rebuild the broken southern economy by abolishing slavery and transitioning African Americans into a free society
Readmit southern states without any punishments, conditions, or limitations on their state laws
The first attempt to give former slaves basic freedoms and citizenship was:
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Reconstruction Acts of 1867
Amnesty Act of 1872
Enforcement Act of 1871
Which of these was NOT part of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
They put the South under military rule
They made states ratify the 14th Amendment
They made states write new constitutions
They divided plantations into farms for former slaves
What was a "scalawag"?
southerner who supported the Union and Reconstruction
Union soldier who protected freedmen in the South
northerner who came south looking for economic opportunity
nickname for a sharecropper
What was the economic impact of sharecropping for most freedmen and their families?
Many took advantage of the Homestead Act
They found manufacturing jobs in new southern factories
They found themselves trapped in a cycle of debt and poverty
They attended freedmen's schools and black colleges
After the Civil War, the United States faced all of the following issues EXCEPT...
What should be done about the territories?
What should be done with the freed slaves?
What should be done about Confederates regaining citizenship?
What should be done about the former Confederate states?
How did Congress take over Reconstruction?
refusing to seat former Confederates in Congress.
paying off Confederate debts.
overriding Johnson’s vetoes.
creating a new army to enforce the new laws.
The Military Reconstruction Acts did all of the following EXCEPT:
Placed Congress in charge of Reconstruction
Divided the former Confederate states into 5 military districts.
Provided military rule in all of former Confederate states to ensure the civil rights of the freedmen.
Remained in effect from 1 to 9 years depending on the state.
What law was Andrew Johnson impeached for breaking He was subsequently acquitted by one vote.
Military Reconstruction Acts
Amnesty Act
Tenure of Office Act
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Who won the election of 1868?
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel Tilden
After Reconstruction, what political party dominated the South for the next 100 years?
Republican
Democrat
Libertarian
Whig
What was the derogatory nickname for Northerners who went South to make money and were perceived to be taking advantage of a ruined economy?
Profiteer
Carpetbagger
Scalawag
Yankee Scum
What were the 3 Reconstruction Amendments to our U.S. Constitution between 1865 and 1870?
11, 12, & 13
20, 21, & 22
14, 15, & 16
13, 14, & 15
Why was the election of 1876 controversial?
President Johnson had just been impeached.
Women were voting in record numbers.
The popular vote did not match the electoral college vote.
7 states had disputed returns with no clear winner.
Congressional Reconstruction is the same as..
Moderate Reconstruction
Confederate Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction
What Congressional law eventually removed the punishments on all but the top leaders of the Confederacy?
Amnesty Act
Sherman Act
Redeemers Act
Freedman's Act
What were Southern Democratic politicians who took over the South at the end of Reconstruction known as?
Redeemers
Klansmen
Radicals
Supremacists
During Reconstruction, all of the following were true EXCEPT:
the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were intended to help them
the Freedmen's Bureau was set up to help provide education
many Freedmen's lives were similar to the time of slavey
many Freedmen were give large sections of land to start their own farms
What scandal during Grant's presidency involved bribes to Congressmen from the railroad companies?
Whiskey Ring
Credit Mobilier
Indian Ring
Teapot Dome
Which Congressional plan of 1864 required a majority of southern states' white adult males to pledge loyalty to the Union? Lincoln 'rejected' it with a pocket veto.
Wade-Davis Bill
10% plan
Civil Rights Act
Freedmen's Bureau
What Congressional Act initiated the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad for both military and settlement purposes?
Railorad Act
Pacific Railway Act
Transcontinental Act
Military Transport Act
