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5.44-5.45 Military Reconstruction and Building a New Life

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When did the Civil War end?

a)

April 1865

b)

May 1888

c)

Dec 1886

d)

July 1878

2.

What struggles did the former slaves face after the war ended? Choose 2

a)

How they would feed their families

b)

Where they would live

c)

Getting a horse

d)

Buying land

3.

What was the name of the agency that was created to help former slaves rebuild their lives?

a)

Freedmen's Bureau

b)

Cumberland Gap

c)

Watauga

d)

Syllabus

4.

What important things did this agency do? choose 2

a)

Gave out food, clothing and medicine

b)

Helped educate former slaves

c)

Started a youth program for children

d)

Built a town for slaves

5.

What school did the American Missionary Association build in Nashville in 1866?

a)

Fisk school for Coloreds

b)

Belmont

c)

Nashville Tech

d)

Nashville school for former slaves

6.

How did the school pay for new buildings?

a)

The Jubilee Singers traveled around performing concerts

b)

The Jubilee Magicians traveled around performing tricks

c)

The Jubilee Players traveled around performing basketball moves

d)

The Jubilee Musicians traveled around performing concerts

7.

Is Fisk University still a school?

a)

Yes

b)

No

8.

Where is Fisk University located?

a)

Nashville

b)

Kingston Springs

c)

Kentucky

d)

Alabama

9.

Why were groups created who aimed at controlling African-Americans through violence and intimidation? Choose 2

a)

To bring back southern honor

b)

They did not want former slaves to have the same rights as them

c)

To take over the government

d)

To start a new state

10.

When and where was the Ku Klux Klan formed?

a)

Nashville Tn 1867

b)

Pulaski Tn 1965

c)

Pulaski Tn 1865

d)

Nashville Tn 1865

11.

What did TN’s governor and General Assembly have to do because of the violence?

a)

Passed a law that gave the governor power

b)

Started a war

c)

Met with congress about moving the state

d)

Retreated the union troops

12.

What is Martial Law?

a)

The military has to control an area rather than the local police

b)

The government takes over another country

c)

The law that stopped the war

13.

What were the racist laws called created by the southern states?

a)

Black Codes

b)

Martial Law

c)

Jim Crowe Laws

14.

What were some examples of these laws?

a)

Difficult for former slaves to get jobs

b)

Forbidden to marry whites

c)

Forbidding former slaves to own a business

d)

illegal for them to serve on jury or in a trail

15.

What ended Reconstruction in the South?

a)

The election of Rutherford B. Hayes

b)

The election of Lincoln

c)

The civil war

d)

Segregation

16.

What effect did ending reconstruction have in the south?

a)

It allowed the local governments to take back control

b)

It meant the civil war would start back up again

c)

This made all people in the south equal

17.

Describe the main goal of Jim Crow laws.

a)

forcing separation between white and black people in public places

b)

Ended racism in the south

c)

Stopped the civil war

d)

Moved the confederate states out of America

18.

What is segregation?

a)

Separating people based on race or religion

b)

A type of battle fought between people

c)

The name of the fort that Nashville

d)

Separating the states

19.

The Emancipation Proclamation

a)

Ended slavery in the south

b)

Started the civil war

c)

Ended the union

20.
Following the end of Reconstruction, federal troops withdrew from the southern states. As a result,_________________________________________.(3-4.6)    
a)
a system of sharecropping was developed which used African American workers
b)
the 13th and 14th amendments were passed to protect African Americans
c)
the Civil Rights Movement was started to fight discrimination
d)
white leaders passed laws to limit the rights of African Americans
21.
Reconstruction helped African Americans  because______________________________________.(3-4.6)
a)
their rights were protected
b)
 they were able to vote
c)
they were able to be elected in the government
d)
All of the above
22.
Following the war, the plantation system collapsed due to________________________________. (3-4.6) 
a)
the passage of the Constitution Act
b)
 the loss of slave labor
c)
 the arrival of scalawags
d)
 the establishment of a public education system
23.
Reconstruction was a time when________________________________________.   
a)
burned forts were rebuilt by slaves
b)
the federal government protected the rights of the newly freed slaves
c)
 towns and cities developed their own governments
d)
new weapons were given to Confederate soldiers
24.

What do you call a person who was opposed to slavery and worked toward ending it?

a)

Secessionist

b)

Lincolnist

c)

Abolitionist

d)

Whig