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Reconstruction Review

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes were enacted by Southern States to

a)

limit the movement of African Americans

b)

make it more difficult for African Americans to vote

c)

improve the lives of African Americans

d)

give more educational opportunities to African Americans.

2.

What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution?

a)

To punish the South for seceding from the Union.

b)

To grant basic rights to formerly enslaved persons.

c)

To allow the states to veto federal laws.

d)

To create a segregated society.

3.

Black Codes were established in the South immediately after the Civil War in an effort to

a)

welcome newly freed slaves into American society

b)

enforce the Emancipation Proclamation

c)

expand educational opportunities to newly freed slaves

d)

limit the rights of newly freed slaves

4.

Slavery throughout the United States was permanently abolished by the

a)

Bill of Rights

b)

13th amendment to the Constitution

c)

The Declaration of Independence

d)

Black Codes

5.

Which statement best describes how the status of African Americans in the South changed after the end of Reconstruction in 1877?

a)

The Supreme Court always supported civil rights for African Americans.

b)

Poll taxes and literacy tests were eliminated for African Americans.

c)

The sharecropping system was eliminated for African Americans.

d)

African Americans faced increasing discrimination and segregation.

6.

After the Civil War, white Southern landowners used sharecropping to

a)

set up schools to educate formerly enslaved persons

b)

encourage freedmen to migrate north

c)

maintain a cheap labor supply

d)

sell their plantation to formerly enslaved persons

7.

The the end of Reconstruction in 1877 led to widespread racial segregation in the South primarily because

a)

of the decline of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

b)

of activities of the Freedmen's Bureau

c)

of the creation of 5 military districts in the South

d)

of the passage of Jim Crow laws

8.

Which Reconstruction Plan was lenient towards the South and allowed for the creation of black codes?

a)

The Radical Reconstruction Plan

b)

Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction

9.

Which Reconstruction Plan dived the South into 5 military districts?

a)

The Radical Reconstruction Plan

b)

Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction

10.

What famous Supreme Court Case ruled that "separate but equal" was legal?

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Brown v. The Board of Education

c)

Marbury v. Madison

d)

Mrs Moore v. Mrs. O'Connor

11.

What was the goal of Reconstruction?

a)

To fix the country by bringing back the Southern States and to help newly freed slaves.

b)

To fix the country by bringing back the Northern States and to enslave more Africans.

c)

To punish the states that seceded and to punish slaves.

d)

To punish the South and the North.

12.

What were Jim Crow Laws?

a)

Laws that legalized racial segregation

b)

Laws that prohibited racial segegration

c)

Laws that enforced civil rights

d)

Laws that legalized assassinations

13.

What was the goal of the Freedmen's Bureau?

a)

To help former slaves with resources like food, housing medical aid, and education.

b)

To help former slaves reunite with their family in Africa.

c)

To help southern redeemers deny rights to former slaves.

d)

To help southern redeemers with the sharecropping system.