WorksheetsTHE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Reconstruction was the name of the era after ________ ended, lasting from 1865 to 1877
The Civil War
slavery
The Freedman’s Bureau provided _____________________.
the right to vote
education, food, housing and medical aid
Lincoln’s Assassination occurred when he and his wife were attending a play at ______________.
the Ford's Theatre
Radio City Music Hall
Andrew Johnson did not believe in racial equality and ___________ southern states to pass new laws that discriminated against former slaves.
prohibited
allowed
Radical Republicans were members of ___________ who gave the Freedman’s Bureau more powers and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866
Congress
The House of Representatives
Radical Reconstruction was when _________________, took charge of Reconstruction efforts.
The president, not Congress
Congress, not the president
Black Codes were ____________laws that denied the civil rights of former slaves.
southern
northern
The ____________ ensured that any person (except native Americans) born in the U.S. was a citizen with full rights.
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
____________ occurred when President Johnson fired his secretary of war, Edwin Stanton.
Secession
Impeachment
In the Election of 1868, Grant won the election partly because of the support of ______________ in the North and new African American voters.
Democrats
Republicans
The Fifteenth Amendment made it illegal to deny citizens the right to vote based on ____________.
gender
race
The Amnesty Act of 1872 pardoned most former Confederates, allowing most white southerners to
to vote and hold office
own slaves again
The Klu Klux Klan was organized in Tennessee with the purpose of _____________.
bravely protecting civil rights
violently opposing civil rights
Economic Depression occurred __________the Panic of 1873.
before
after
The Compromise of 1877 meant that __________ would be president, but the Reconstruction would end.
Samuel Tilden
Rutherford B. Hayes
Poll Taxes required ______________ to pay money to vote.
African American men
African American men and women
