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Reconstruction Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which made it harder for the southern states to rejoin the Union?

a)

Congressional Reconstruction

b)

Presidential Reconstruction

c)

the Civil War

d)

Black Codes

2.

Which amendment gave African Amerians Citizenship and Equal Rights?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

3.

What is Sufrage?

a)

right to work in politics

b)

right to marry

c)

right to vote

d)

right to get a job

4.

Which ammendment gave African Americans Suffrage?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

16th

5.

Which amendment banned slavery?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

16th

6.

Members of Congress believed the government needed to take a greater role in Reconstruction.  They formed a group called the -

a)

Black Codes

b)

Reconstruction Group

c)

Congressional Committee

d)

Radical Republicans

7.

Which president was assassinated at the beginning of Reconstruction?

a)

James Buchanan

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Andrew Johnson

d)

Ulysses S. Grant

8.

When charges of wrongdoing against a public official are filed, this process has begun.

a)

impeach

b)

veto

c)

segregate

d)

override

9.

forced separation of races in public places is -

a)

secession

b)

segregation

c)

sharecropping

d)

depression

10.

A series of state laws passed after the end of Reconstruction that segregated races are called -

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Reconstruction Acts

c)

Civil Rights Acts

d)

Reconstruction Laws

11.

Which Republican became president after agreeing to remove federal troops from the South, thus ending Reconstruction?

a)

Abe Lincoln

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

d)

Rutherford B. Hayes

12.

The government created this group after the Civil War ended to provide help and legalaid to freedpeople.

a)

Redeemers

b)

Freedmen's Bureau

c)

Scalawags

d)

Carpetbaggers

13.

This man was Abraham Lincoln’s vice president and would become president of the United States following Lincoln’s assassination.

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

Rutherford B. hayes

d)

Edmund Davis

14.

secret society created after the Civil War that threatened African Americans to keep them from expressing their political views is known as

a)

The Solid South

b)

The Scalawags

c)

the Klu Klux Klan

d)

the Sharecroppers

15.

Black Codes was a name given to laws passed by southern governments established during the presidency of Andrew Johnson.  These laws imposed severe restrictions on freedmen, such as prohibiting their right to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, and limiting their right to testify against white men.  They were also forbidden from carrying weapons in public places and working in certain occupations.

Southern states passed codes described in this excerpt in order to:

a)

improve relations with the Democrats

b)

Increase the labor supply for factory jobs

c)

limit the effects of the Reconstruction amendments

d)

seperate races in public places

16.

Which of the following statements describes a result of the Thirteenth Amendment?

a)

African Americans could vote

b)

African Americans in the South could move elsewhere

c)

Former Confederate officials were prohibited from being elected office.

d)

Former Union officials were guaranteed land.

17.

What is another name for individual rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution?

a)

suffrage

b)

Civil Rights

c)

Black Codes

d)

Segregation

18.

How were African Americans in Texas denied their civil rights after the Civil War and after Reconstruction ended?

a)

Black Codes

b)

couldnt hold political office

c)

couldnt' vote

d)

both black codes and couldnt hold political office

19.

How did the federal government help former slaves during Reconstruction?

a)

Freedmen's Bureau

b)

JIm Crow Laws

c)

the Reconstruction Amendments

d)

Both the Freedmen's Bureau and the Reconstruction Amendments.

20.

True or False: African Americans did not receive any hostility after they were set free.

a)

True

b)

False