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Reconstruction Era

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?

a)

New York City

b)

Fords Theater

c)

Rockefeller Center

2.

Who held the power in Congress during the Reconstruction Era?

a)

Southerner Democrats

b)

Green Party

c)

Radical Republicans

3.

Who did Andrew Johnson think should be in leadership positions in the South?

a)

White Southerners

b)

Radical Republicans

c)

African Americans

4.

Thaddeus Stevens thought the African Americans should be first granted....

a)

Voting Rights

b)

Education

c)

Land or a house

5.

African Americans were withheld from voting by....

a)

Literacy Test

b)

Fifteenth Amendment

c)

Wade-Davis Bill

6.

Lincoln's Reconstruction plan was called

a)

Wade-Davis Bill

b)

10 Percent Plan

c)

Radical Republicans

7.

How many military districts was the South broken up into?

a)

3

b)

4

c)

5

8.

What ended the Reconstruction Era?

a)

Compromise of 1877

b)

Compromise of 1876

c)

Compromise of 1878

9.

Which amendment granted citizenship to African Americans?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

10.

The ____________ were created to aid the newly freed African Americans

a)

Radical Republicans

b)

Freedmen's Bureau

c)

Ku Klux Klan

11.

These were created to limit African Americans daily life.

a)

Wade-Davis Bill

b)

Tennessee Constitution of 1870

c)

Black Codes

d)

Blue Codes

12.

Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?

a)

He stole candy from a baby

b)

He was caught speeding

c)

He broke the Tenure of Office Act

13.

What were the name for the African Americans who moved to Kansas?

a)

Moses

b)

Exodusters

c)

Cowboys

14.

What did the 13th amendment do?

a)

Everyone was gifted a puppy from the government

b)

Everyone was granted citizenship

c)

Everyone was allowed to vote

d)

Slavery was abolished

15.

Why did Congress pass the Tenure of Office Act?

a)

They did not agree with Andrew Johnson's actions

b)

They wanted to limit his powers as Commander-in-Chief

c)

They wanted to limit who Andrew Johnson would be able to fire

d)

All of the Above

16.

Who were carpetbaggers?

a)

White Southerners who moved North

b)

Cowboys

c)

Northerners who moved to the South

17.

What were ways African Americans were withheld from voting?

a)

Poll Tax

b)

Grandfather Clause

c)

Literacy Test

d)

All of the Above

18.

What was the result of the Compromise of 1877?

a)

Military moved into the south and Hayes became president

b)

Military left the South and Hayes became president

c)

Military moved into the South and Grant became president

19.

What were the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment called?

a)

Progressive Era Amendments

b)

Revolutionary Era Amendments

c)

Reconstruction Era Amendments

20.

Sharecropping was designed to return African Americans to something similar to _________________

a)

Childhood

b)

Slavery

c)

Freedom