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Chpt 18 To Reconstruct a Nation Gibbs/Smith

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 1hrs 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which amendment abolished slavery in 1865?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
2.

What did the 13th Amendment say?

a)

Slavery was illegal/not allowed.

b)

All people are citizens of the United States

c)

All men in the United States can vote.

3.

What did the 14th Amendment say?

a)

All men can vote.

b)

Slavery is illegal/not allowed.

c)

All people (born in the U.S.A.) are citizens of the United States and have full rights as American citizens.

4.

What did the 15th Amendment say?

a)

Slavery is illegal/not allowed.

b)

All men can vote.

c)

All people (born in the U.S.A.) are citizens of the United States.

5.

What agency was created by the United States Congress in 1865 to set up schools and churches, supply food and clothing, and solve employment issues for the former slaves?

a)

the American Missionary Association

b)

the Freedmen's Bureau

c)

the Ku Klux Klan

6.

Which Reconstruction era organization worked to improve conditions for the newly-freed African-Americans?

a)

the Redeemers

b)

the Freedman's Bureau

c)

the White League

7.

What was the MAIN purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

a)

to establish Black Codes to limit freed slaves' rights

b)

to serve as a voice for freed slaves in Congress

c)

to help slaves adjust to their newfound freedom

8.

Which amendment to the Constitution granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to anyone born in the US, including African Americans and former slaves?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

9.

Which amendment to the Constitution gave African American men the right to vote?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

10.

Which of the following is true about sharecropping

a)

Most southern states outlawed sharecropping

b)

Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping

c)

Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty

11.

Sharecropping was often referred to as a new form of _________.

a)

Land owning

b)

Slavery

c)

Free labor

12.

What is sharecropping?

a)

A system of farming where farmers rent land and pay the landowner with a share of the profits from their crops

b)

The period of time after the Civil War

c)

A system of farming where the farmer receives a large percentage of the profits from their crop

13.

What groups of people were often sharecroppers?

a)

Rich landowners

b)

Former slaves and poor whites

c)

White Northerns

14.

Agricultural & economic practice where a land owner allows a tenant farmer to work his land for a share of his crop

a)

sustenance farming

b)

sharecropping

c)

carpetbagger

15.

This organization was established to help free men, or former slaves after the Civil War. They built hospitals and schools in the south.

a)

The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands

b)

The Bureau of Freed Slaves

c)

The Bureau of the 13th Amendment

16.

The period after the Civil War when the South rejoined the Union was known as:

a)

The Renaissance

b)

The New South Age

c)

Reconstruction

17.

The purpose of Reconstruction was to:

a)

destroy the South

b)

rebuild and unite the country

c)

send former slaves back to Africa

18.

How did the assassination of Abraham Lincoln impact his plans for Reconstruction?

a)

Lincoln's death had little impact on Reconstruction because his plan had already been implemented

b)

Lincoln had only just begun to draft a plan when he was assassinated in 1865

c)

Lincoln did not have time to implement his plan prior to his death, so President Johnson took over Reconstruction

19.

After Lincoln's death, Johnson's plan for Reconstruction

a)

was based on the Republican plan

b)

was seen as lenient, like Lincoln's

c)

strengthened his ties with Congress

20.

As part of his Reconstruction plan, President Johnson thought the South should be treated

a)

harshly

b)

gently

c)

quietly

21.

As state governments were reestablished in the South under Johnson's Reconstruction plan,

a)

more and more African Americans began to participate in government

b)

many Confederate leaders were unable to join the new governments

c)

many in the North felt the South should be punished more harshly

22.

To accuse a government official of wrongdoing

a)

Separation of Powers

b)

Impeach

c)

Three Fifths Compromise

23.

Who took the office of President after President Lincoln was assassinated?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Andrew Livingston

24.

Black Codes are

a)

a coded language African Americans used

b)

laws that told people what they could wear

c)

Laws that restricted and limited African American rights

25.

What was Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction?

a)

a. Preserve the Union and end the Civil War as soon as possible, it also required 10% of southern white males to swear loyalty to the Union.

b)

a. Send military control to the South and punish all Confederate Veterans

c)

a. End the use of slave labor in the South and give all African Americans the right to vote

26.

Reconstruction is known as the period of rebuilding after the _________ War.

a)

Civil

b)

French and Indian

c)

Great

27.

The Black Codes were created in many Southern states shortly following the Civil War. What were they?

a)

A set of laws passed that guaranteed equal job opportunities for blacks and whites

b)

A set of laws that allowed African-Americans to serve in a state’s legislature

c)

A set of laws passed to keep African-Americans from having rights equal as whites

28.

The members of Congress battled with both presidents because they felt that the Presidential Reconstruction Plans:

a)

were too focused on helping the freed African slaves, but not on helping the poor, white farmers.

b)

were too strict to allow the Union to ever be reunited as it was prior to the Civil War.

c)

did not punish the Southern states that rebelled against the Union.

29.

What was the purpose of the Military Reconstruction Act

a)

To outlaw Black Codes

b)

To oversee and enforce Reconstruction Legislation

c)

To provide assistance to former slaves after the Civil War

30.

The Ku Klux Klan was started by a group of former ________ as a social club, but quickly grew into a terrorist group.

a)

Europeans

b)

Union officers

c)

Confederate soldiers

31.

The goal of the KKK was to use violence and intimidation to keep African-Americans from exercising their rights under the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment and therefore, allow the southern whites

a)

the right to vote

b)

to achieve some economic independence

c)

to regain control of the state and local governments

32.

Whose election in 1876 signaled the end of Reconstruction?

a)

Rutherford B. Hayes

b)

Ulysses Grant

c)

Andrew Johnson

33.

What title best completes these subtitles?

*Removal of all Federal Troops from the South

*Marked the End of Reconstruction

*Democrats Won Control of the Southern State Government

a)

Slave Codes

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Compromise of 1877

34.

Which teacher loves her students the most?

a)

Mrs. Anita

b)

Mrs. Dingleberry

c)

Mrs. Frizzle

d)

Mrs. Claus