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Reconstruction

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

These were Southern Laws that limited the rights of African Americans

a)

Black Codes

b)

Emancipation Laws

c)

Jerry Crow Laws

d)

Sharecropping

2.

This organization violently opposed African Americans rights to property and suffrage.

a)

The Freemen's Bureau

b)

Carpet Baggers

c)

Ku Klux Klan

d)

Scalawags

3.

This Amendment granted people born into the United with Citizenship Rights and provided Civil Rights.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

4.

This was a derogatory name that was given to Northerners who came to the south to profit off of Reconstruction.

a)

Scalawags

b)

Freedmen's Bureau

c)

Sharecroppers

d)

Carpet Baggers

5.

This organization was created to help African Americans assimilate into life after slavery. They provided job training, built schools, and provided protection.

a)

The KKK

b)

Freedmen's Bureau

c)

The Military Reconstruction Acts

d)

Carpet Baggers

6.

This Amendment ended the institution of slavery in the US.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

7.

This Amendment granted African American men with the right to vote.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

8.

This was a secret deal that led to the end of Reconstruction, the removal of troops from the south, and the election of Rutherford B. Hayes.

a)

The Compromise of 1899

b)

Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

c)

The Compromise of 1877

d)

The agreement of 1990

9.

What is sharecropping?

a)

a work system that replaced slavery after the Civil War that helped plantation owners rebuild their businesses

b)

a job on a farm only freedmen could hold

c)

a paid position working on a farm that was difficult to get after the Civil War

d)

a system of labor that offered many opportunities to freedmen and their families

10.

The period of rebuilding the South and readmitting Southern states into the Union

a)

Reconstruction

b)

Equitable

c)

Segregation

d)

Amnesty