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Worksheets1.7 Reconstruction
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 4hrs 0mins
How did Abraham Lincoln contribute to Reconstruction?
He created the Ten Percent Plan to make it fairly simple for the Southern states to be readmitted into the Union.
He used his executive influence to encourage passage of the Wade Davis Bill to demand the Ironclad Oath
He ordered troops into the South to prevent terror organizations such as the KKK from reclaiming the territory.
How did the Thirteenth Amendment contribute to Reconstruction?
The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery.
The Thirteenth Amendment ended the Civil War.
The Thirteenth Amendment developed the Freedmen's Bureau.
How did the Freedmen's Bureau contribute to Reconstruction?
The Freedmen's Bureau created infrastructure to ensure an easier transition from slavery to freedom for African Americans.
The Freedmen's Bureau racially segregated Southern schools to stifle the end of separate but equal rights.
The Freedmen's Bureau offered Southerners whose homes were destroyed by the Union financial compensation.
How did the Black Codes contribute to Reconstruction?
The Black Codes were intended to prevent African Americans from practicing their civil rights.
The Black Codes were intended to ensure African Americans could practice their civil rights.
The Black Codes were intended to make African Americans financially dependent on the federal government.
How did the Fourteenth Amendment contribute to Reconstruction?
The amendment guaranteed citizens equal protection under both state and federal law, overturning the Dred Scott decision.
The amendment made the Black Codes a federal violation and held back federal funding from states who instituted them.
The amendment made any threat of secession from the US government treasonous and punishable by death.
How did Southern states try to prevent enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment?
They enforced literacy tests and/or poll taxes to be able to vote.
They allowed Union soldiers to guard polling booths to scare African Americans.
They required a picture identification at polling booths.
They burnt down all the polling booths in Northern districts.
Why did the Southerners form the Democratic Party during Reconstruction?
Southerners unified to try and protect the Old Social Order of the South.
Southerners wanted to prevent the mass exodus of skilled labor from the South.
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags joined forces to protect the civil rights of African Americans.
How did the crop-lien and sharecropping systems perpetuate Reconstruction?
These systems were intended to prevent the financial progress of African Americans and maintain the social order of the Old South.
These systems were intended to assist freed African Americans who did not have the financial assets to start a business.
These systems were federally mandated subsidy programs intended to encourage African American ownership of farmland in the South.
How did the Ku Klux Klan stall Reconstruction?
The KKK intimidated African Americans from practicing their civil rights through acts of terror.
The KKK collaborated with the Freedmen's Bureau to ensure President Grant's executive orders
The KKK worked cooperatively with the Union League to promote equal pay for African Americans.
How did the federal government respond to the Ku Klux Klan?
President Grant sent federal forces into the South to derail Klan activity.
President Grant cut federal funding to states who permitted Klan activity.
President Grant declared war on the South restarting the American Civil War.
How did the Compromise of 1877 contribute to Reconstruction?
President Hayes would remove federal troops from the South ending Reconstruction.
President Hayes would disband the Ku Klux Klan allowing African Americans civil liberties.
President Hayes encouraged his supporters to overturn the Electoral College by threatening the Senate.
What seems to be the purpose of this speech from Abraham Lincoln?
to heal the wounds caused by the American Civil War
to permanently end the horrific practice of slavery in the South
to promote the westward expansion of America
to show his support for the Southern Redeemers
Which statement seems to be true about the Texas Black Codes?
employment contracts were an attempt to keep African Americans oppressed
employment contracts would provide financial opportunity for former slaves
former slaves could now be free to work for whomever they chose to work for
former slaves would be assured an opportunity to economically prosper in the Reconstructed South.
What does a comparison of the two illustrations suggest?
The government should trust the wounded African American soldier over the white southern politician
The government should trust the white majority concerning how to handle the freed African Americans
The government should listen to the Congressional majority not the plea of one individual
The government should not bend to the sympathetic appeal of women activists who support the African American soldiers.
What does the illustration in Harpers suggest about the role of the KKK?
The Klan helped the white Southerners keep former slaves subjugated.
The Klan cooperated with the federal government to maintain order after the Civil War.
The Klan developed a pact with the military to stop the violence against freed African Americans
African Americans true fight for freedom should be against the oppression of the federal government.
What does political cartoonist Thomas Nast imply about Southern attitudes about Northern migrants?
Carpetbaggers are unwelcome in the South.
Carpetbaggers are the brow of American labor.
Carpetbaggers are the salt of the earth.
Carpetbaggers will free the American South
