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Reconstruction Test - Practice

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was called

a)

Amnesty

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Impeachment

d)

Sharecropping

2.

Which Amendment officially ended slavery in the United States?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

17th

3.

Which groups of people were NOT included in the 15th Amendment? (CHOOSE 2)

a)

African American men

b)

White men

c)

Women

d)

American Indians

4.

Frederick Douglass fought for voting rights. Which Amendment would he have supported?

a)

1st Amendment

b)

5th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

18th Amendment

5.

Federal troops supervised the South during Reconstruction in order to...

a)

Enforce equality for African Americans

b)

Stop African Americans from moving to a new town

c)

Stop all Southerners from voting

d)

Take away citizenship from American Indians

6.

The first African Americans were elected to Congress because of this...

a)

African Americans were able to vote

b)

White Southerners could be elected

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Black Codes

7.

This group helped freed African Americans and poor whites with food, clothing and by building schools.

a)

Southern Democrats

b)

Supreme Court

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

d)

Ku Klux Klan

8.

How did white Southerners stop African Americans from voting? (CHOOSE 3)

a)

State Constitutions

b)

Poll Taxes

c)

Sharecropping

d)

Literacy Tests

9.

The separation of people specifically by race is called...

a)

Discrimination

b)

Segregation

c)

Vocational Education

10.

The Plessy v Ferguson court case created the idea of...

a)

Individual but Equal

b)

Equal but Same

c)

Separate but Equal

d)

New but Equal

11.

This image shows an example of which type of law?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

15th Amendment

d)

Equal Rights Laws

12.

This group opposed (was against) racial equality by using intimidation (fear and threats of violence)...

a)

The Freedmen's Bureau

b)

Military Districts

c)

Ku Klux Klan

d)

The Reconstruction Agency

13.

Civil Rights leader. Believed vocational education was the way to equality.

a)

WEB DuBois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

14.

Civil Rights leader. Believed that equality should be demanded immediately.

a)

WEB DuBois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

15.

Civil Rights leader. Wrote about lynchings in newspapers.

a)

WEB DuBois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

16.

Illegal killing of people by gangs of violent vigilantes is called...

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Lynching

c)

Sharecropping