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AAH Unit 4 Review

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

During the era of Reconstruction, sharecroppers were exploited in all the following ways, EXCEPT?

a)

They were charged high prices for food

b)

Planters controlled all the records

c)

They were subjected to rape

d)

White planters weighed the cotton

2.

Who believed the former Confederacy should be treated as 'conquered area'.

a)

Whigs

b)

Radical Republicans

c)

Free Soilers

d)

Democrats

3.

What was the period of Reconstruction under Lincoln and Johnson known as?

a)

Radical Reconstruction

b)

Presidential Reconstruction

c)

Northern Reconstruction

d)

Southern Reconstruction

4.

What was the name of the period of Reconstruction when Radical Republicans controlled Congress?

a)

Radical Reconstruction

b)

Presidential Reconstruction

c)

Northern Reconstruction

d)

Southern Reconstruction

5.

What caused the Radical Republicans to feel the need to seize control of Reconstruction?

a)

Southern governments refused to surrender to federal troops

b)

Invasion of Scalawags

c)

African Americans were killed, injured and intimidated

d)

Carpetbaggers in the South

6.

Which of the following describes someone from the North who migrated South to make a fortune off of the war destruction?

a)

Carpetbaggers

b)

Scalawags

c)

Democratic Redeemers

d)

Radical Republicans

7.

What law established how former Confederate states would be readmitted into the Union?

a)

Reconstruction Act of 1867

b)

Reunification Act of 1848

c)

Reconstitution Act of 1900

d)

Reestablishment Act of 1850

8.

What agreement resulted in Rutherford B. Hayes becoming President of the United States and the remaining federal troops being withdrawn from the South during Reconstruction?

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Compromise of 1865

d)

Compromise of 1877

9.

What happened if a sharecropper could not pay his debts?

a)

Hanged

b)

Sold into slavery

c)

Required to work indefinitely for the planter

d)

Sent to jail

10.

What college for vocational studies was founded by Booker T. Washington?

a)

Benedict College

b)

Tuskegee Institute

c)

Fisk University

d)

Howard University

11.

What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

a)

Texas vs. Johnson

b)

Tinker vs. DesMoines

c)

Brown vs. Board of Education

d)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

12.

Which of the following BEST explains the purpose of the Jim Crow system?

a)

Keep public facilities cleaner

b)

keep African-Americans as second-class citizens

c)

keep the races pure

d)

keep African-Americans from entering into politics

13.

What areas were racially segregated?

a)

Schools

b)

Housing

c)

Public Transportation

d)

All of these answers

14.

You are eligible to vote if you grandfather was eligible to vote under this clause.

a)

Grandfather clause

b)

Father Clause

c)

Grandmother Clause

d)

Santa Clause

15.
Beginning as a social club for former Confederates, this organization terrorized African Americans across the country.
a)
Fraternal Order of Elks
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
Freemasons
d)
Illuminati
16.

What were poll taxes?

a)

Money given to the former slaves to vote

b)

Money given to politicians for their vote

c)

Money paid to be able to own property

d)

Money paid to the poll worker before blacks could vote

17.
One of the most common forms of violence was___. Illegal execution of a person by a mob.
a)
Lynching
b)
Arrest
c)
Tar and Feathering
d)
Pillaring
18.
the act of depriving someone of a right or privilege 
a)
suffrage
b)
jim crow laws
c)
disenfranchisement 
d)
reconstruction
19.

What said the mission of whites was to civilize the darker peoples of the world?

a)

White Man's Burden

b)

The United Nations' theory

c)

The Confederate constitution

d)

The Dred Scott case

20.

Who led anti-lynching campaigns and joined W.E.B. DuBois and others in organizing the NAACP?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

c)

Richard Allen

d)

Ida B. Wells

21.

Which statement is a valid generalization about the experience of African Americans during the early Reconstruction period (1865-1870)?

a)

They gained economic equality.

b)

Their participation in government decreased.

c)

Their political equality was opposed by most Radical Republicans.

d)

 They achieved legal rights through constitutional amendments.

22.

1. Which is the best title for this chart?

?

Poll Taxes

Grandfather Clause

Literacy Tests

a)

Actions Taken by the Republican Party

b)

Tactics Used to Disenfranchise African Americans

c)

Steps in President Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan

d)

Actions the Ku Klux Klan Opposed

23.

W.E.B. DuBois believed that African Americans should attempt to gain equality in the United States by

a)

demanding full and immediate participation in American society

b)

setting up a separate nation within the United States

c)

taking over leadership if all political parties

d)

entering vocational training programs in separate schools

24.

The cartoon above appeared during which period?

a)

Reconstruction

b)

the Great Depression

c)

the Harlem Renaissance

d)

colonial America

25.

Which of the following would have been the role of the Freedmen's Bureau?

a)

to help southern soldiers readjust to life after the war

b)

providing education to Union soldiers after the war

c)

providing money to help rebuild the South's postwar economy

d)

providing assistance, services, and relief to emancipated slaves

26.

Which statement best summarizes the beliefs of Booker T. Washington?

a)

The best solution for African Americans was to return to Africa

b)

Social equality for African Americans would be easier to achieve than legal rights

c)

The way to dissolve the barriers of segregation and bring about an end to Jim Crow laws was by active, violent resistance

d)

The most immediate means for African Americans to achieve equality was to expand their opportunities for vocational education.

27.

One idea shared by both Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois is best described by which of the following?

a)

African Americans should have increased civil rights

b)

vocational training was the best approach to education

c)

immigration was responsible for racial segregation

d)

Jim Crow laws were needed to help African Americans

28.
This African-American demanded full political, civil, and social rights to his people, so he started the NAACP
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
W.E.B. DuBois
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Frederick Douglass