WorksheetsReconstruction
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
What did the ratification of the 13th amendment accomplish?
It ended slavery.
It promoted religious freedom.
It made slavery legal.
It made hate crimes punishable.
Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan required that _____ of the southern states' population needed to pledge their allegiance to the United States of America.
5%
10%
25%
50%
What was Lincoln's overall goal for Reconstruction?
He wanted to make the South suffer.
He wanted to bring the United States back together as quickly as possible.
He wanted to strengthen the North's economy.
He wanted the North to celebrate before the South could rejoin.
The federal government placed _____ throughout the South to ensure that Reconstruction policies were being implemented and followed.
governors
African Americans
troops
______ took advantage of the South's crippled economy after the Civil War.
Carpetbaggers
Confederates
Freedmen
Democrats
Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction was much more forgiving than Lincoln's. Why?
He was a southerner who was sympathetic to the South.
He wanted to punish the North.
He didn't support the idea of African Americans gaining citizenship.
Why did white southerners dislike "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags?"
Carpetbaggers and scalawags took all of the factory jobs.
Carpetbaggers and scalawags refused to help freedmen.
White southerners felt like their role in society was overall threatened by these people.
Which of the following is an example of help offered by the Freedmen's Bureau?
It provided freemen with free land.
It gave them loans to start businesses.
It set up schools for freedmen to attend.
It found them jobs in the North.
Which amendment ended slavery in America?
The 13th Amendment.
The 14th Amendment.
Emancipation Proclamation
Why was the Freedmen's Bureau created at the end of the Civil War?
To return runaway slaves to their owners.
To give protection and aide former slaves.
To protect natural resources during the Civil War.
To create support for the war effort.
What was the positive impact of the 15th Amendment?
The southern States made sure African Americans were elected into government.
States required that all citizens receive land.
Women gained the right to vote.
African Americans gained the right to vote.
How were the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments similar?
They created federal taxes.
They protected the rights of African Americans.
They regulated industry.
What was the name of the relationship between freed slaves and white landowners represented in this diagram?
carpetbagging
indentured servant
sharecropping
subsistence farming
What was the main goal of Reconstruction after the Civil War?
To hurt the South's economy.
To promote industrialization.
To protect the rights of plantation owners.
To rebuild the South.
How was the military used during Reconstruction?
Congress set up 5 military districts throughout the South.
Checkpoints were put in place to keep Southerners in the South.
The military worked with the South to create new methods of operating their farms.
