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RLaws - Unit 1 PowerPoint Part 1 - The New South

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 39mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which United States President was the first to be impeached?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Abe Lincoln

d)

Ulysses S. Grant

2.

Which U.S. President during this time period (1865 - 1877) did not want any pardons given to anyone in the South who owned property valued in excess of $20,000.

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Andrew Johnson

d)

James K. Polk

3.

When a president is impeached he is thrown out of office.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Choose the term that matches this definition, "Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction to take advantage of government programs for their own financial and political gains."

a)

Carpetbaggers

b)

Scalawags

c)

Sharecroppers

d)

Tenant Farmers

5.

This amendment made slavery illegal forever in the United States.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

6.

The Freedmen's Bureau was............

a)

was group appointed by Congress to help poor blacks and whites in the South by assisting them in obtaining financial relief.

b)

a fund established to help poor blacks and whites in the South by assisting them in obtaining financial relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education by establishing schools.

c)

a group of poor blacks and whites in the South speaking out against Jim Crow laws

d)

a group of poor blacks and whites in the South standing together to work for financial relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education by establishing schools.

7.

Which United States President put forth a plan that would allow any state to be readmitted to the Union by only 10% of its voters to make a pledge of loyalty to the US Government?

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

d)

James K. Polk

8.

This Constitutional Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.

a)

The 13th Amendment

b)

The 14th Amendment

c)

The 15th Amendment

d)

The 16th Amendment

9.

He was the first African American to serve in Congress.

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Eugene V. Debs

c)

Stephen Douglas

d)

Hiram Revels

10.

What is the name given for the legal separation of black and whites in public places, as long as the public facilities are equal?

a)

Racism

b)

Black Codes

c)

Segregation

d)

Slavery

11.

What Supreme Court Case established the rules of Segregation in the South?

a)

Plessey v. Ferguson

b)

Worchester v. Georgia

c)

Marbury v. Madison

12.

This amendment guaranteed citizenship to all people born or naturalized within the U.S. except for the Indians.

a)

The 13th Amendment

b)

The 14th Amendment

c)

The 15th Amendment

d)

The 16th Amendment

13.

This group of Southern whites created a reign of terror against blacks across the Southern states.

a)

Freedmen's Bureau

b)

Ku Klux Klan

c)

Scalawags