WorksheetsThe Reconstruction Era
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 11mins
Reconstruction proposition that would forgive all southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the North after the Civil War and required Southern States to abolish slavery, but allowed the denial of voting rights to African Americans
Radical Republicans' Congressional Plan
Lincoln's 10% Plan
Johnson's Plan
Southern Democrats' Plan
The assassin of Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Ulysses S. Grant
William Seward
James Boothes
people who traveled Southward from the North during Reconstruction looking for opportunities to make money or “get rich" off the misfortunes of the South
scalawags
carpetbaggers
radicals
sharecroppers
the attorney who served on the Brown v. Board of Education legal decision that overturned the results of Plessy v. Ferguson
Thurgood Marshall
John Marshall Harlan
Jonathan W. Booth
Booker T. Washington
a term that means to grant forgiveness or a general pardon, for an act that could be considered illegal, especially political offenses
dissent
amnesty
grace
segregate
the person who encouraged African Americans to make themselves "necessary" to the South’s economy by getting an education and work-training
Booker T. Washington
Thurgood Marshall
Robert Livinston
John Marshall
constitutionally abolished slavery in the United States of America
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
18th Amendment
Choose the list that is considered Reconstruction amendments to the US Constitution.
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
13th, 18th, 22nd Amendments
13th, 15th, 16th Amendments
this Supreme Court Justice believed that all citizens were equal before the law no matter what the color of their skin was, and therefore opposed the decision of “separate but equal”
Justice Clarence Thomas
Justice Thurgood Marshall
Justice John Marshall Harlan
constitutionally guaranteed all male citizens, without concern for race, the right to vote in the United States of America
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
18th Amendment
the concept that forced the separation of races
amnesty
segregation
impeachment
scalawag
a white southerner who supported the Republicans attempt of equal rights for African Americans
scalawag
carpetbagger
scumbag
turncoat
these regulations were adopted by southern states In response to the 13th Amendment in an attempt to keep Freedmen in a slave-like condition after the Civil War
sharecropper mandates
black codes
Jim Crow standards
the official attempt to present formal charges of wrongdoing against a public official
impeachment
indictment
arrest
incarceration
farming system in which a landowner provides the land and materials, while the tenant provides the skill, giving about two-thirds of the harvested crops to the landowner
sharecropping
crop-liens
strip-farming
tenant farming
the organized and deliberate attempt to rebuild the South’s government, economy, and society after the North's victory in the Civil War
Segregation
Reconstruction
Separate but Equal
Equal Rights
constitutionally guaranteed citizenship and equal protection to all African Americans in the United States of America
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
18th Amendment
Which list below correctly identifies the people who were also to be killed the same night that President Lincoln was assassinated?
Vice President Johnson, Secretary of State Sewell, and Ulysses S. Grant
Vice President Johnson, Secretary of War Stanton, and Ulysses S. Grant
No one else was to be harmed.
Plessy v. Ferguson was a legal decision that ____.
helped promote the practice of segregation
helped end the practice of segregation
permitted African Americans to serve in elected government office
The Compromise of 1877 ____.
ended the Union military occupation in the South
permitted Horatio Seymour to become the 19th President of the United States
led to the passage of the Equal Rights Act of 1866
The Compromise of 1877 _____.
led to the Union military occupying the South
led to Southern Democrats agreeing to accept Rutherford B. Hayes as the 19th President of the United States
led to the beginning of the Civil War
Which of these is true? After the Civil War ______.
18 African Americans served in elected positions over an eleven year period.
The Ku Klux Klan defended all former slaves' right to vote
President Andrew Johnson called for the arrest of all former Confederate military leaders
Abraham Lincoln's 10% Plan for Reconstruction was adopted by the United States Congress
prevented southern states from issuing Black Codes.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Rights Act of 1866
1954 court case, that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
Brown v. Board of Education
Washington v. Harlan
Marshall v. Plessy
When Booker T. Washington encouraged African Americans to try to gain power by working and making money this was known as the _____.
Atlanta Compromise
1877 Compromise
American Compromise
Which of these provided food, emergency assistance, job training and education to African American families?
Freedmen's Bureau
Federal Bureau
Red Cross
Under the crop-lien system, a tenant could lose all of his ____ if he didn't pay his required rent.
crop
children
land
What precedent did the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson establish?
separate but equal
14th Amendment
all men are created equal
Which of these was not a direct attempt to restrict voting rights for African Americans?
grandfather clause
poll tax
black codes
literacy test
Ulysses S. Grant was a strong supporter of civil rights for all African Americans.
YEP!
NOPE!
