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Reconstruction, Maps, 3 Branches of Gov

Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which Branch makes the Laws?
a)
Legislative
b)
Judicial
c)
Executive
d)
Federal
2.
Which branch enforces the laws?
a)
Legislative
b)
Executive
c)
Federal
d)
Judicial
3.
What are the 2 parts of our Congress?
a)
Federal and State
b)
House of Rep and Senate
c)
Senate and Federal
d)
House of Rep and State
4.
How many Senators are there?
a)
6
b)
50
c)
9
d)
100
5.
How many Justices are there?
a)
5
b)
50
c)
9
d)
100
6.
Which is the highest Court?
a)
Local
b)
State Supreme
c)
Homecoming Court
d)
U.S. Supreme
7.
What are the 3 branches of government? 
a)
Judicial, Federal, Legislative
b)
Judicial, State, Executive
c)
Legislative, Judicial, Executive
d)
Judicial, Local, Executive
8.
A __________ tells you what each symbol on the map stands for.
a)
legal
b)
lobster
c)
legend
d)
langoustine
9.
An imaginary line or meridian measuring east or west of the prime meridian.
a)
longitude
b)
langoustine
c)
latitude
d)
geogrpahy
10.
Which part of the map show the directions?
a)
Map Title
b)
Compass Rose
c)
Map key or legend
d)
Grid Lines
11.
Which imaginary line divides the Earth into the northern and southern hemispheres?
a)
Prime Meridian
b)
Equator
c)
Axis
d)
North Pole
12.
What does letter B represent?
a)
Pacific Ocean
b)
India
c)
Asia
d)
South America
13.

What is the name of the dark yellow continent?

a)

South America

b)

North America

c)

Asia

d)

Africa

14.

What continent is directly south of North America?

a)

Australia

b)

Europe

c)

Africa

d)

South America

15.

Which ocean is located off the east coast of North America?

a)

Pacific Ocean

b)

Atlantic Ocean

c)

Indian Ocean

d)

Southern Ocean

16.

Which continent is located west of Asia?

a)

Europe

b)

Antarctica

c)

Australia

d)

South America

17.

Which ocean is the farthest north?

a)

Indian Ocean

b)

Southern Ocean

c)

Arctic Ocean

d)

Atlantic Ocean

18.

What is the name of the most southern continent?

a)

Australia

b)

Africa

c)

Asia

d)

Antarctica

19.

Which ocean is located to the east of Africa and to the west of Australia?

a)

Atlantic Ocean

b)

Indian Ocean

c)

Pacific Ocean

d)

Arctic Ocean

20.

Which continent is to the east of the Indian Ocean and to the west of the Atlantic Ocean?

a)

Africa

b)

Europe

c)

North America

d)

Asia

21.

Which ocean is located off the west coast of North America. It is the LARGEST ocean.

a)

Atlantic Ocean

b)

Pacific Ocean

c)

Arctic Ocean

d)

Southern Ocean

22.

Which continent is an island continent?

a)

Europe

b)

North America

c)

Antarctica

d)

Australia

23.

Lincoln's Reconstruction needed southern states to have at least ________ % of the voting population take a loyalty oath.

a)

10

b)

30

c)

50

d)

99

24.

The __________Amendment outlawed slavery.

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

25.

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

a)

Union Army

b)

Special Field Order 15

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

26.

___________________ wanted African Americans to have full citizenship.

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Radical Republicans

d)

Union Army

27.

What amendment made all people born in the United States citizens?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

28.

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

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

sharecropping

c)

the black codes

d)

Reconstruction

29.

The ________________ allowed for slavery as a punishment for a crime.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

30.

Literacy tests were created as a way to suppress African American voters after the passage of the _______________.

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

b)

13th Amendment

c)

14th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

31.

Which of the following is NOT a policy?

a)

Southern military leaders were barred from public office.

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1866 was enforced by federal troops.

c)

African Americans could be elected to public office.

d)

Southerners resented (felt angry about) carpetbaggers.

32.

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

33.

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

34.
What group in Congress felt that Lincoln's plan was too lenient?
a)
Deciduous Democrats
b)
Radical Republicans
c)
Wistful Whigs
d)
Fancy Federalists
35.
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
36.
Which Branch makes the Laws?
a)
Legislative
b)
Judicial
c)
Executive
d)
Federal
37.
Which branch enforces the laws?
a)
Legislative
b)
Executive
c)
Federal
d)
Judicial
38.
What are the 2 parts of our Congress?
a)
Federal and State
b)
House of Rep and Senate
c)
Senate and Federal
d)
House of Rep and State
39.
How are members of the U.S. House of Rep. and U.S. Senate elected?
a)
Voters in their state
b)
Voters in Mexico
c)
Voters in Canada
d)
Voters on the moon
40.
Who studies laws to see if they are correct according to the constitution?
a)
Justices
b)
the President
c)
Senate
d)
Congress
41.
Where do the major Branches of our Federal Government meet and work?
a)
Washington D.C.
b)
Detroit, MI
c)
Flint, MI
d)
Chicago, IL