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Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 23mins

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Class
Date
1.

A period after the Civil War in which the former Confederate States of America had to be integrated back into the USA politically, socially, and economically.

a)

Reconstruction

b)

The Civil War

c)

Jim Crow

d)

The Civil Rights Movement

2.

A plan for Reconstruction that called for leniency, pardons, and quickly allowed Southern states back into the Union. It also advocated for States Rights on deciding how to handle the integration of Freedmen into society.

a)

Radical Reconstruction

b)

Presidential Reconstruction

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

d)

The Enforcement Acts

3.

A plan for Reconstruction that advocated punishing former Confederate states and their leaders. It wanted to establish Federal control of the South in order to protect, and expand, the rights of African Americans.

a)

The Reconstruction Acts

b)

The Enforcement Acts

c)

Radical Reconstruction

d)

Presidential Reconstruction

4.

A term that classifies all men, women, and children that were previously bound to the institution of slavery.

a)

Slaves

b)

Carpetbaggers

c)

Scalawags

d)

Freedmen

5.

A term that describes a "foreign" person that packs up their belongings and moves to the south during and after the Civil War.

a)

Scalawag

b)

Freedmen

c)

Carpetbagger

d)

Sharecropper

6.

A term that southerner uses to describe another southerner who gave up on the cause of the Confederacy and participated in the Reconstruction process.

a)

Carpetbagger

b)

Freedmen

c)

Scalawag

d)

Sharecropper

7.

A faction (group) within Congress that took control of Reconstruction from Andrew Johnson in 1867. They advocated for taking Confederate land, dividing the south in military districts, and using Federal troops to protect freedmen's rights guaranteed in the 13-15th Amendments.

a)

Conservative Republicans

b)

Northern Democrats

c)

Southern Democrats

d)

Radical Republicans

8.

An amendment to the US constitution that outlawed slavery except as punishment for a crime.

a)

19th

b)

14th

c)

13th

d)

15th

9.

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution that granted citizenship to freedmen and guaranteed all citizens "equal protection" under the law.

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

19th

10.

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution that guaranteed the right to vote to all male citizens regardless of race, ethnicity, or nationality.

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15h

d)

19th

11.

A system that arose throughout the former Confederate States to replace the institution of slavery. It broke plantations into rental plots that families could rent in return to farming the land. Often, they paid rent based upon their crop yields and fell into a vicious cycle of generational debt.

a)

Freedmen's Bureau

b)

Sharecropping

c)

Convict Leasing

d)

The Black Codes

12.

A Federal program created by Abraham Lincoln and Radical Republicans in order to protect and promote freedmen with their transition into citizenship. The program provided food, shelter, education, medical supplies, and aided in finding employment. It laid a foundation for future welfare programs of the present.

a)

Tenant Farming

b)

Social Security Act

c)

Compromise of 1877

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

13.

Southerners who were unhappy with the loss in the war, and disgruntled by the racial uplifting of freedmen, formed this violent group hellbent on restoring a white status quo in the American South.

a)

Freedmen's Bureau

b)

Scalawags

c)

The White League

d)

Ku Klux Klan

14.

Southern states enacted harsh new laws, rules, and regulations designed to criminalize former slaves and take advantage of the loophole in the 13th Amendment. This began a system known as convict leasing.

a)

Segregation

b)

The Black Codes

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Presidential Reconstruction

15.

After several racial riots in New Orleans and Memphis, Radical Republicans asked General Grant to engineer a plan to stop the violence and protect freedmen in the south. Together, they divided the South into five military districts and used Federal troops to enforce the Reconstruction Amendments. This marked the beginning of "Radical" Reconstruction.

a)

Presidential Reconstruction

b)

Radical Reconstruction

c)

Reconstruction Acts of 1867

d)

The Enforcement Acts

16.

A southerner, former slave owner, and devout believer of states rights that took over as President following Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865. He became the first President in U.S. History to be impeached by Congress and is widely considered one of the worst Presidents in U.S. History.

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

Rutherford B. Hayes

d)

Samuel Tilden

17.

Which of the following was not a form of voting restriction in the American south during the Jim Crow Era?

a)

Poll Taxes

b)

Literacy Tests

c)

Grandfather Clause

d)

15th Amendment

18.

An agreement between the Republican and Democratic parties after the 1876 Presidential election that gave Republicans, and Rutherford B. Hayes, the Presidency in return for ending Reconstruction and removing Federal troops from the South.

a)

Compromise of 1877

b)

Reconstruction Acts

c)

The Enforcement Acts

d)

Jim Crow

19.

An intellectual movement, and propaganda campaign, that attempted to rewrite the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction in order to justify the Confederacy in a more positive light. Through the use of education, monuments, and film, the movement was wildly successful in changing the narrative. What is it known as?

a)

The Jim Crow Era

b)

The Lost Cause

c)

Reconstruction

d)

The Compromise of 1877

20.

After the ending of Reconstruction, discrimination and racial laws eventually formed into a broad form of racial segregation that lasted into the 1960s. What is this period known as?

a)

The Harlem Renaissance

b)

Civil Rights Movement

c)

The Reconstruction Era

d)

The Jim Crow Era

21.

Segregation by law. It exists predominately in southern states between 1877 and 1964.

a)

De Facto Segregation

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Black Codes

d)

De Jure Segregation

22.

Segregation by custom. It exists throughout southern and northern states and is determined by the customary practices of business owners, local individuals, and communities.

a)

De Jure Segregation

b)

De Facto Segregation

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

The Black Codes

23.

A form of mob "justice," where an individual is targeted based upon race, nationality, or gender. That individual is murdered by the mob without the due process of law. This was common throughout the nation during the Jim Crow Era.

a)

Honor Killing

b)

Vigilante Justice

c)

Lynching

d)

Disenfranchisement

24.

An intellectual leader that wrote "Black Reconstruction in America," and founded the NAACP. He was the first African American graduate from Harvard and one of the nation's early Civil Rights leaders. He believed that a "talented tenth," would emerge to lead African Americans towards equality in America.

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Marcus Garvey

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Booker T. Washington

25.

A mass movement of African Americans out of the American south and into northern and western cities. They are fleeing Jim Crow, the KKK, and a lack of voting rights and seeking economic opportunity.

a)

The Great Migration

b)

The Gold Rush

c)

Dust Bowl Refugees

d)

March on Washington

26.

African Americans who settled into New York City after the Great Migration gravitated towards this neighborhood that birthed a Renaissance of music, literature, fashion, and cuisine that had a profound impact on American culture.

a)

Tulsa

b)

Birmingham

c)

Selma

d)

Harlem

27.

An early Civil Rights leader that believed in black acquiescence and instead advocated for African Americans to "cast their bucket down," in hard work, education, labor, farming, and vocational skills.

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Malcolm X

28.

An early Civil Rights leader that advocated for African Americans to join the UNIA with the goal of recolonizing African nations. His influence and beliefs inspired the Black Power Movement that came later in the 20th century.

a)

Stokely Carmichael

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Marcus Garvey

29.

Which term represents the racial riots that took place following WWI in places like Elaine, Arkansas or Tulsa, Oklahoma.

a)

The Red Summer

b)

Radical Reconstruction

c)

Jim Crow Era

d)

The Red Scare

30.

A group of teenagers that were wrongfully accused, and charged, with rape in 1931 in the state of Alabama. After multiple retrials and two Supreme Court verdicts, all nine teenagers were eventually acquitted of the original charges. The case inspired the novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird".

a)

Scottsboro Boys

b)

Central Park 5

c)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

d)

Dred Scott Decision

31.

An African American athlete that broke the color barrier in baseball by integrating the MLB with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

a)

Cool Papa Bell

b)

Smokey Joe Williams

c)

Jackie Robinson

d)

Satchel Paige

32.

A Civil Rights leader that preached non-violent civil disobedience even in the face of violence.

a)

Malcolm X

b)

W.E.B. Du Bois

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

Stokely Carmichael

33.

A Civil Rights leader that preached self defense in the face of violence and was harshly critical of MLK's approach to equality and integration. This person advocated black power and was assassinated in 1965.

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Stokely Carmichael

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Fred Hampton

34.

A Civil Rights leader that emerged as a voice of unity in his community. He established the first "Rainbow Coalition," of minority communities in Chicago. He was murdered by police in 1969.

a)

Huey Newton

b)

Bobby Seale

c)

Fred Hampton

d)

Martin Luther King Jr.

35.

An economic tool to hurt a business, company, or nation by denying your consumer dollars.

a)

Sit In

b)

Boycott

c)

Embargo

d)

Tariff

36.

A Supreme Court case that ruled that Jim Crow Laws, and segregation, are constitutional as long as the facilities are "separate, but equal".

a)

Browder vs. Gayle

b)

Scott vs. Sanford

(Dred Scott)

c)

Brown vs. Board of Education

d)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

37.

A Supreme Court case involving Howard High School that ruled, "in the field of education, the doctrine of separate but equal is inherently unequal".

a)

Browder vs. Gayle

b)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

c)

Scott vs. Sanford

d)

Brown vs. Board of Education

38.

Any type of activism that activists would practice (marching, protesting, petitioning, etc.)

a)

Direct Action

b)

Non-violent Civil Disobedience

c)

Boycotts

d)

Freedom Riders

39.

A famous boycott that ultimately led to the Supreme Court ruling in Browder vs. Gayle that desegregated public transportation.

a)

Birmingham Demonstrations

b)

March on Washington

c)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

d)

The Freedom Rides

40.

A famous civil and human rights icon that used his athletic platform to bring issues to the American public's attention.

a)

Jim Brown

b)

Wilt Chamberlain

c)

Jackie Robinson

d)

Muhammad Ali

41.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed this bill into law in 1964 that prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, gender, and nationality.

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

42.

This southern city was the site of three mass marches in order to protest disenfranchisement in Alabama.

a)

Selma

b)

Montgomery

c)

Birmingham

d)

Tulsa

43.

A landmark piece of legislation signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson that outlawed any form of disenfranchisement and reversed a century of practices like poll taxes, literacy tests, and others...

a)

Reconstruction Act

b)

Civil Rights Act

c)

Voting Rights Act

d)

Enforcement Act

44.

An outspoken Alabama governor, and Presidential candidate, that was a staunch segregationist who once stated, "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever".

a)

George C. Wallace

b)

Orval Faubus

c)

Robert F. Kennedy

d)

Lyndon B. Johnson

45.

A group that emerged out of the Black Power Movement in order to prevent police brutality in Oakland, California. They orchestrated a free breakfast program for children, health clinics for impoverished communities, and brought attention to inner city issues.

a)

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

b)

Black Panther Party

c)

Congress of Racial Equality

d)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People