WorksheetsReconstruction TEST Review
Total questions: 51
Worksheet time: 34mins
What was responsible for a majority of soldiers’ deaths during the Civil War?
Bad medical care.
Poor transportation.
Out-Dated technology
Lincoln’s policies
Which of the following economic effects did the war NOT have on America?
The North experienced an economic boom.
The South’s economy was shattered.
Many people’s standard of living improved.
Congress collected the nation’s first income tax, to pay for the war.
Which General followed a policy of Total War?
Robert E. Lee
William Tecumseh Sherman
George McClellan
Ulysses S. Grant
Which of the following was NOT an effect the Civil War had on America?
Many farms were ruined physically and financially.
The federal government became more powerful.
The Republican government began to rebuild the South.
The economic gap between North and South began to close.
Which Amendment stated that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States.”?
13th
14th
15th
16th
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
Robert E. Lee
John Wilkes Booth
James Buchanan
George McClellan
This was the period the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War
The Great Awakening
The Gilded Age
The Renaissance
The Reconstruction
Who started/supported the 10% Reconstruction Plan?
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
The Radical Republican Party
Congress
Who became president once Lincoln was assassinated?
James Buchanan
Franklin Pierce
Andrew Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes
Why did Congress want to impeach Andrew Johnson?
They believed he was engaging in traitorous discussions with other countries.
They saw him as a threat to start another Civil War.
They believed he was blocking efforts at Reconstruction.
They saw him as an immoral and dangerous man, unfit to hold his office.
Which of the following is NOT true about the election of Ulysses S. Grant in 1868?
He received a large percentage of the African American vote.
He barely won the election.
A big reason he was elected was because he was a war hero.
He promised that he would get rid of the Radical Republicans, if elected.
Which Amendment allowed people to vote, “regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”?
13th
14th
15th
16th
What man continued to follow Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, after his assassination?
Jefferson Davis
Stephen Douglas
Andrew Johnson
James Buchanan
Whose Reconstruction Plan involved STRICT punishments on the South?
Abraham Lincoln’s
Andrew Johnson’s
Jefferson Davis’
Congress’
Which Amendment granted full citizenship to all former slaves?
13th
14th
15th
16th
Whose Reconstruction Plan created the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Congress’
Abraham Lincoln’s
Andrew Johnson’s
Jefferson Davis’
Which of the following is NOT true about the Ku Klux Klan?
The Klan planned to destroy the Republican Party.
Congress allowed the Klan to do as they pleased.
The Klan used violence to achieve their goals.
They wanted to prevent African Americans from voting.
What did the Compromise of 1876 allow?
It allowed the states to choose if they wanted to continue Reconstruction.
It allowed African Americans to vote, as long as segregation remained in effect.
It allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president, even though he lost the election.
It allowed Congress to continue Reconstruction until they determined the South to be “fixed”.
Reconstruction ended predominantly for what reason?
The Compromise of 1877, a deal between the North and the South
New laws ensured the welfare of freed slaves, and a new generation of southern leaders were ready to continue Union policies
Reconstruction was too expensive to continue
The South had been rebuilt and no longer needed to be reconstructed
To support the claim that the 15th Amendment failed to fulfill its promise for nearly a century, a historian would most likely cite which of the following as evidence?
Athletic opportunities were still unequal for blacks and whites
Employment practices were still racially discriminatory
Public schools were still segregated
Voting rights were still denied to blacks
Which quotation expresses President Lincoln’s official opinion on federal and state relations?
A union held together by the bayonet would be nothing better than a military despotism.”
“We have no desire to prevent secession by coercion.”
“I do not expect the Union to be dissolved-I do not expect the house to fall-but I do expect it will cease to be divided.”
“We shall urge that the proper steps be taken to give full effect to their decision to secede.”
All of the following were methods used to deny African Americans their rights in the South after the Civil War EXCEPT
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
The Grandfather Clause
Emolument Clause
How did the Radical Republicans handle the 10 remaining states that had not ratified the 14th Amendment to become reconstructed and part of the Union?
Congress let them be their own country again
Congress forced officials from each state to come to Washington to beg for a pardon
Congress cut financial support to the south until they agreed to ratify the 14th Amendment and rejoin the union
Congress took control of the ten states by dividing them into 5 military districts
To keep a steady workforce in place in the south plantation owners created contracts with freedmen that basically became a legalized form of slavery. This system is called
True link farming
Crop dusting
Sharecropping
Farm Aid
Southern states that were readmitted to the Union after the Civil War tried to
treat the freedmen like slaves by passing Black Codes that prevented them from jobs other than farming and household service.
give the freedmen economic power and political authority by voting former slaves into local government offices.
please the northern states by electing leaders who were not former slave owners.
reject the former leaders of the Confederacy by banning them from current government offices
In their plans for Reconstruction, both President Lincoln and President Johnson sought to
Punish the South for starting the Civil War
Force the Southern states to pay reparations to the federal government
Allow the Southern states to reenter the nation as quickly as possible
Establish the Republican Party as the only political party in the South
“Although important strides [accomplishments] were made, Reconstruction failed to provide lasting guarantees of the civil rights of the freedmen [former slaves].”
Which evidence best supports this statement?
Passage of Jim Crow laws
Ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
Refusal of Southern states to allow sharecropping
Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866
Who can best be described as having a powerful voice for human rights and civil liberties for all?
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
"I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."
Who of the following would have stated the quote above?
Frederick Douglass
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
"To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave."
Who of the following would have stated the quote above?
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
Jefferson Davis
Schools in the south to educate freedmen were set up by the ______________
Union Army
Special Field Order 15
Freedmen's Bureau
Special Field Order 15 gave _____________ to families of freedmen.
labor contracts
40 acres of tillable land
voting rights
citizenship
What gave African Americans equal rights and authorized the use of federal troops for its enforcement?
15th Amendment
Civil Rights Acts of 1866
Freedmen's Bureau
Black Codes
Northerner who took economic, political, or social advantage of the south following the Civil War
Radical Republican
Confederate
Carpetbagger
Yankee
What was the name given to former Confederates who supported Reconstruction?
Carpetbaggers
Freedman
Scalawags
White Leagues
Schools in the south to educate freedmen were set up by the ______________
Union Army
Special Field Order 15
Freedmen's Bureau
White Leagues
What is the subject of the following political cartoon, published in Harpers Weekly
Compromise of 1850
Civil War in 1865
Reconstruction in 1866
Election of 1876
Which of the following can be best described as the result of the issue presented in this cartoon?
The end of the Republican Party
The end of Reconstruction
The beginning of the Civil War
Black Americans gaining political power
What was the result of the New Orleans and Memphis massacres in 1866?
Increased support for Radical Republicans
Formation of White Leagues
The end of Reconstruction
Securing the Freedmen's right to vote
