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Rebuilding a Nation

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which statement best summarizes Abraham Lincoln's aim for Reconstruction?

a)

Lincoln wanted to end slavery and enforce the Black Codes.

b)

Lincoln wanted to end slavery and humiliate southern plantation owners.

c)

Lincoln wanted to end the war as quickly as possible and reunite the nation.

d)

Lincoln wanted to fight one or more battle to destroy the South.

2.

What group wanted to reunite families, establish strong communities, form their own churches, and claim equal citizenship?

a)

U.S. Congress

b)

Confederate Soldiers

c)

Southern Plantation Owners

d)

Southern African Americans

3.

Which amendment made slavery illegal everywhere in the United States?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

4.

What rights were granted by the 14th amendment?

a)

right for all citizens to vote

b)

right for all citizens to own land

c)

right for all citizens to own a business

d)

right for all citizens to have equal protection of the law

5.

Which group was granted the right to vote by the 15th amendment?

a)

all citizens

b)

all immigrants

c)

all male citizens

d)

all African Americans

6.

Which were examples of preventing the right to vote?

a)

poll taxes

b)

literacy tests

c)

"grandfather clause"

d)

all of the above

7.

Which of the following was a major role of the Freedman's Bureau?

a)

to enforce the Black Codes

b)

to help write new state constitutions

c)

to help the former slaves after the war

d)

to encourage African Americans to run for office

8.

Which population did General Sherman advocate for "40 acres and a Mule"?

a)

freedmen

b)

Northern migrants

c)

Southern elite

d)

scalawags

9.

What was the effect of the sharecropping system on both African Americans and poor white sharecroppers?

a)

It helped them become a part of the middle class.

b)

It allowed them to have a political voice for the first time.

c)

It allowed them to make enough money to eventually buy their own land.

d)

It forced them to become dependent on the landowner for land and fall into debt.

10.

What policy made it difficult for African American men to vote and required separated facilities such as bathrooms, water fountains, and schools?

a)

Black Codes

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

14 Amendment

d)

Compromise of 1877

11.

What was the Port Royal Experiment?

a)

Union troops occupied SC Sea Isands

b)

10,000 slaves freed and owners fled

c)

First major attempt by Northerners to rebuild Southern economy and political systems.

d)

All of the above

12.

What group of people were Freedmen's Conventions for?

a)

former Confederate soldiers

b)

former plantation owners

c)

former slaves

d)

former Union soldiers