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WorksheetsReconstruction Review
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes were enacted by Southern States to
limit the movement of African Americans
make it more difficult for African Americans to vote
improve the lives of African Americans
give more educational opportunities to African Americans.
What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution?
To punish the South for seceding from the Union.
To grant basic rights to formerly enslaved persons.
To allow the states to veto federal laws.
To create a segregated society.
Black Codes were established in the South immediately after the Civil War in an effort to
welcome newly freed slaves into American society
enforce the Emancipation Proclamation
expand educational opportunities to newly freed slaves
limit the rights of newly freed slaves
Slavery throughout the United States was permanently abolished by the
Bill of Rights
13th amendment to the Constitution
The Declaration of Independence
Black Codes
Which statement best describes how the status of African Americans in the South changed after the end of Reconstruction in 1877?
The Supreme Court always supported civil rights for African Americans.
Poll taxes and literacy tests were eliminated for African Americans.
The sharecropping system was eliminated for African Americans.
African Americans faced increasing discrimination and segregation.
After the Civil War, white Southern landowners used sharecropping to
set up schools to educate formerly enslaved persons
encourage freedmen to migrate north
maintain a cheap labor supply
sell their plantation to formerly enslaved persons
The the end of Reconstruction in 1877 led to widespread racial segregation in the South primarily because
of the decline of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
of activities of the Freedmen's Bureau
of the creation of 5 military districts in the South
of the passage of Jim Crow laws
Which Reconstruction Plan was lenient towards the South and allowed for the creation of black codes?
The Radical Reconstruction Plan
Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction
Which Reconstruction Plan dived the South into 5 military districts?
The Radical Reconstruction Plan
Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction
What famous Supreme Court Case ruled that "separate but equal" was legal?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. The Board of Education
Marbury v. Madison
Mrs Moore v. Mrs. O'Connor
What was the goal of Reconstruction?
To fix the country by bringing back the Southern States and to help newly freed slaves.
To fix the country by bringing back the Northern States and to enslave more Africans.
To punish the states that seceded and to punish slaves.
To punish the South and the North.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that legalized racial segregation
Laws that prohibited racial segegration
Laws that enforced civil rights
Laws that legalized assassinations
What was the goal of the Freedmen's Bureau?
To help former slaves with resources like food, housing medical aid, and education.
To help former slaves reunite with their family in Africa.
To help southern redeemers deny rights to former slaves.
To help southern redeemers with the sharecropping system.
