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WorksheetsReconstruction
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 15mins
The __________Amendment outlawed slavery.
13th
14th
15th
Schools in the south to educate freedmen were set up by the ______________
Union Army
Special Field Order 15
Freedmen's Bureau
Who killed President Lincoln so he was not able to guide reconstruction?
John Hinkley Jr.
Lee Harvey Oswald
John Wilkes Booth
Ulysses Simpson Grant
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.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
A freedmen was required to have a labor contract in Mississippi after 1865. This is an example of ______________.
Jim Crow Laws
Reconstruction
the black codes
Jim Crow Laws that suppressed the rights and votes of African Americans.
(3 correct answers)
literacy tests
made it illegal for blacks to vote
segregation laws
poll tax (voting tax)
Which amendment states that a citizen cannot be denied the right to vote.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Which is the best description of Reconstruction?
rebuilding the US after a big earthquake
a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War
a period of rebuilding the South and reuniting all the states in the US after the Civil War
unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War
Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?
limit African American rights and keep things a lot like it was with slavery
expand Confederate rights so they could start a new war
give women voting rights
Who could hold public office in the south during Military/ Congressional Reconstruction?
African Americans
Confederate Leaders
Southern Women
Organizations like these worked for which of these goals?
To encourage southerners to fight against the Union
to use violence against African Americans and keep them from being equal
To encourage African American education
The compromise of Presidential Election of 1876 gave the Republicans the presidency but with the removal of the military from the South resulted in...
military supervision of the south
equal rights for African Americans
the end of Reconstruction in the south
Presidential Reconstruction following the American Civil War can BEST be described as
a plan to fix the damage to the White House caused by the Civil War.
a desire to punish those southerners responsible for causing and/or prolonging the war.
a desire to rebuild the country quickly and without ill feelings following the war.
This group used fear & violence to prevent African Americans from voting in the South following Reconstruction
Black Codes
Ku Klux Klan
Radical Republicans
Carpetbaggers
Agricultural & economic practice where a land owner allows a tenant farmer to work his land for a share of his crop
sustenance farming
sharecropping
carpetbagger
slavery
He believed..."The black man is not truly free until he has the ballot."
Robert E. Lee
Frederick Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
___________________ wanted African Americans to have full citizenship.
Andrew Johnson
Democrats
Radical Republicans
Who would have most likely NOT supported the Freedmen's Bureau?
An abolitionist
a carpetbagger
a former slave owner
a northern business owner
