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THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Reconstruction was the name of the era after ________ ended, lasting from 1865 to 1877

a)

The Civil War

b)

slavery

2.

The Freedman’s Bureau provided _____________________.

a)

the right to vote

b)

education, food, housing and medical aid

3.

Lincoln’s Assassination occurred when he and his wife were attending a play at ______________.

a)

the Ford's Theatre

b)

Radio City Music Hall

4.

Andrew Johnson did not believe in racial equality and ___________ southern states to pass new laws that discriminated against former slaves.

a)

prohibited

b)

allowed

5.

Radical Republicans were members of ___________ who gave the Freedman’s Bureau more powers and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866

a)

Congress

b)

The House of Representatives

6.

Radical Reconstruction was when _________________, took charge of Reconstruction efforts.

a)

The president, not Congress

b)

Congress, not the president

7.

Black Codes were ____________laws that denied the civil rights of former slaves.

a)

southern

b)

northern

8.

The ____________ ensured that any person (except native Americans) born in the U.S. was a citizen with full rights.

a)

14th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

9.

____________ occurred when President Johnson fired his secretary of war, Edwin Stanton.

a)

Secession

b)

Impeachment

10.

In the Election of 1868, Grant won the election partly because of the support of ______________ in the North and new African American voters.

a)

Democrats

b)

Republicans

11.

The Fifteenth Amendment made it illegal to deny citizens the right to vote based on ____________.

a)

gender

b)

race

12.

The Amnesty Act of 1872 pardoned most former Confederates, allowing most white southerners to

a)

to vote and hold office

b)

own slaves again

13.

The Klu Klux Klan was organized in Tennessee with the purpose of _____________.

a)

bravely protecting civil rights

b)

violently opposing civil rights

14.

Economic Depression occurred __________the Panic of 1873.

a)

before

b)

after

15.

The Compromise of 1877 meant that __________ would be president, but the Reconstruction would end.

a)

Samuel Tilden

b)

Rutherford B. Hayes

16.

Poll Taxes required ______________ to pay money to vote.

a)

African American men

b)

African American men and women