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Reconstruction

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The __________Amendment outlawed slavery.

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

2.

Schools in the south to educate freedmen were set up by the ______________

a)

Union Army

b)

Special Field Order 15

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

3.

Who killed President Lincoln so he was not able to guide reconstruction?

a)

John Hinkley Jr.

b)

Lee Harvey Oswald

c)

John Wilkes Booth

d)

Ulysses Simpson Grant

4.

What amendment made all people born in the United States citizens? Also it gave ALL citizens equal protection of the law and the right to vote.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

5.

A freedmen was required to have a labor contract in Mississippi after 1865. This is an example of ______________.

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Reconstruction

c)

the black codes

6.

Jim Crow Laws that suppressed the rights and votes of African Americans.

(3 correct answers)

a)

literacy tests

b)

made it illegal for blacks to vote

c)

segregation laws

d)

poll tax (voting tax)

7.

Which amendment states that a citizen cannot be denied the right to vote.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

8.

Which is the best description of Reconstruction?

a)

rebuilding the US after a big earthquake

b)

a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War

c)

a period of rebuilding the South and reuniting all the states in the US after the Civil War

d)

unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

9.

Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?

a)

limit African American rights and keep things a lot like it was with slavery

b)

expand Confederate rights so they could start a new war

c)

give women voting rights

10.

Who could hold public office in the south during Military/ Congressional Reconstruction?

a)

African Americans

b)

Confederate Leaders

c)

Southern Women

11.

Organizations like these worked for which of these goals?

a)

To encourage southerners to fight against the Union

b)

to use violence against African Americans and keep them from being equal

c)

To encourage African American education

12.

The compromise of Presidential Election of 1876 gave the Republicans the presidency but with the removal of the military from the South resulted in...

a)

military supervision of the south

b)

equal rights for African Americans

c)

the end of Reconstruction in the south

13.
Laws passed by southern states soon after the Compromise of 1877.  These laws legalized segregation whites and blacks to use separate facilities. 
a)
Jim Crow Laws
b)
Black Codes
c)
Freedman's Bureau
d)
Reconstruction
14.
The organization put in place after the Civil War to provide food, clothing, health care and education in the South was known as:
a)
The Civil Rights Committee
b)
The Freedmen's Bureau
c)
The Welfare Committee
d)
The Salvation Army
15.
Which three Amendments where designed to ensure equality for the slaves?
a)
17th,18th,19th
b)
13th,14th,15th
c)
13th,14th,16th
d)
8th,9th,10th
16.
During Reconstruction, most former Confederate states
a)
were placed under military rule for a time
b)
were readmitted into the Union, but only after promising to end slavery within 10 years
c)
given full representation in Congress without issue
d)
supported the immediate end of slavery throughout the U.S.
17.

Presidential Reconstruction following the American Civil War can BEST be described as

a)

a plan to fix the damage to the White House caused by the Civil War.

b)

a desire to punish those southerners responsible for causing and/or prolonging the war.

c)

a desire to rebuild the country quickly and without ill feelings following the war.

18.

This group used fear & violence to prevent African Americans from voting in the South following Reconstruction

a)

Black Codes

b)

Ku Klux Klan

c)

Radical Republicans

d)

Carpetbaggers

19.

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

d)

slavery

20.

He believed..."The black man is not truly free until he has the ballot."

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Frederick Douglas

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Jefferson Davis

21.

___________________ wanted African Americans to have full citizenship.

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

Democrats

c)

Radical Republicans

22.

Who would have most likely NOT supported the Freedmen's Bureau?

a)

An abolitionist

b)

a carpetbagger

c)

a former slave owner

d)

a northern business owner

23.
What was segregation?
a)
equal treatment for all people
b)
the forced separation of races
c)
a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
d)
the period of time after the Civil War
24.
System of farming where farmers gave part of their crop to pay for the land they rented
a)
Family-Farming
b)
Sharecropping
c)
Groupcropping
d)
Split-Farming
25.
Why did sharecroppers remain poor?
a)
The South flooded during Reconstrucion
b)
They owed money to the landowners, never getting out of debt
c)
The sun never shone on crops
d)
Animals ate all the crops