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Reconstruction + Civil Rights 2021

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The time period after the Civil War was called…

a)

Interwar

b)

Reunification

c)

Antebellum

d)

Reconstruction

2.

The President of the U.S. during the Civil War was...

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

Rutherford B. Hayes

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Abraham Lincoln

3.

Reconstruction policies were harsh and created problems in the_________.

a)

North

b)

South

c)

West

d)

Midwest

4.

What governmental agency assisted African Americans with jobs, education, and medical attention?

a)

ACLU

b)

Freedman's Bureau

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Black Codes

5.

Laws restricted African Americans’ social, political and economic freedoms during Reconstruction?

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Black Codes

c)

Civil Rights Act

d)

John Brown Laws

6.

Which amendment does this image represent?

a)

12th

b)

13th

c)

14th

d)

15th

7.

What amendment allowed African American males the right to vote?

a)

12th

b)

13th

c)

14th

d)

15th

8.

What amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S.?

a)

12th

b)

13th

c)

14th

d)

15th

9.

This Confederate General told his soldiers to lay down their weapons and become Americans again

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Andrew Johnson

d)

Robert E. Lee

10.

Who is the former slave that fought for amendments to protect the rights of all people?

a)

Homer Plessy

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

W.E.B. Dubois

d)

Booker T. Washington

11.

Who supervised the South during Reconstruction?

a)

Former Slaves

b)

Southern Military Leaders

c)

Northern Soldiers

d)

Southern Sheriffs

12.

What ended Reconstruction?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

Compromise of 1877

13.

This person fought against the lynching (public execution) of African Americans by writing about them in newspapers and magazines.

a)

Ida B. Wells

b)

Homer Plessy

c)

W.E.B DuBois

d)

Booker T Washington

14.

Who were removed from the South when Reconstruction ended?

a)

Scalawags

b)

African Americans

c)

Northern Troops

d)

Southern Military Leaders

15.

Which Supreme Court case made segregation legal?

a)

Brown vs Topeka

b)

Plessy vs Ferguson

c)

Adams vs Monroe

d)

Johnson vs Lincoln

16.

Which African American believed vocational education (job training) and separation of the races would lead to equality?

a)

Homer Plessy

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

Frederick Douglass

17.

Who was a co-founder of the N.A.A.C.P.?

a)

Homer Plessy

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

Jim Crow

18.

After Reconstruction, these laws separated whites and blacks in public places?

a)

Black Codes

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

13th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

19.

This picture shows which amendment being followed?

a)

15th

b)

13th

c)

14th

d)

12th

20.

What amendment, created during Reconstruction, is described in the box?

a)

14th

b)

15th

c)

16th

d)

13th

21.

After Reconstruction, the system of segregation was supported by:

a)

Black Codes

b)

Immigration laws

c)

Civil rights laws

d)

Jim Crow Laws

22.

“Separate is NOT Equal” was the term that came from this Supreme Court case:

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Davis v. Prince Edward County

c)

Brown V. Board of Education

d)

Plessy v. Board of Education

23.

A form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met is called this:

a)

Freedom Ride

b)

Sit-in

c)

Boycott

d)

March

24.

This activist is credited with starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Martin Luther King Jr

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Rosa Parks

25.

This law prohibited racial discrimination in voting and banned the use of literacy tests:

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

d)

Brown v. Board of Education

26.

This man was an integration leader known for promoting passive resistance to segregated facilities:

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

27.

“Separate but Equal” was the term that came from this Supreme Court case:

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Plessy v. Board of Education

c)

Brown v. Ferguson

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson

28.

These were the African American students selected to integrate into a high school in Arkansas in 1957

a)

Little Rock Nine

b)

Little Rock Ten

c)

Little Rock Eleven

d)

Little Rock Twelve

29.

To refuse to buy, use, or participate in something as a way of protesting is called this:

a)

March

b)

Boycott

c)

Sit-in

d)

Freedom Ride

30.

This law ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination:

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

31.

This man was tired of the nonviolent movement and fought for equality “by any means necessary:”

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Frederick Douglass