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Reconstruction Intro

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which is the best description of Reconstruction?
a)
rebuilding the US after a big earthquake
b)
a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War
c)

a period of rebuilding in the Southern US after the Civil War

d)
unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War
2.
The 14th Amendment granted...
a)
freedom of speech
b)
citizenship and equal protection
c)
the right to vote
d)
the right to a speedy and fair trial
3.
Which of these amendments gives citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
18th Amendment
4.
The 13th Amendment ...
a)

Freed the Slaves

b)
grants voting rights
c)
grants citizenship and equal protection
d)
restores Confederate rights
5.
Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?
a)
limit African Americans rights
b)
expand Confederate rights
c)
give women voting rights
d)
jail Carpetbaggers
6.
The Ku Klux Klan was a group that believed...
a)
in white supremacy
b)
in equality for all
c)
in black supremacy
d)
in southern supremacy
7.
Carpetbaggers were...
a)
Newly freed slaves
b)
Southern Republicans
c)
Confederate Soldiers
d)
Northerners who took advantage of southern economic hardships 
8.
Scalawags were...
a)
Northerners who took advantage of southern economic hardships 
b)
Southern Republicans
c)
former Confederate Leaders
d)
African Americans
9.

To break away for your own independence.

a)

Immigrants

b)

Secede

c)

Proclamation

d)

Frontier

10.

Person who gives parts of their crops away as rent-

a)

Infantry

b)

Sharecroppers

c)

Immigrants

d)

Abolish

11.

secret organization that was created after civil war terrorized blacks to keep them from voting

a)

ku klux klan

b)

15 amendment

c)

14 amendment

d)

states rights

12.

This Federal Organization which was created to help freed slaves after the civil war with money, jobs, education and protection was the:

a)

gettysburg

b)

chickamauga

c)

freedmans bureau

d)

emancipation proclamation

13.

During reconstruction the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 was:

a)

supported the immediate end of slavery throughout the us

b)

were readmitted in the union but only after promising to end slavery within 10 years

c)

given full representation in congress without issue

d)

Southern States were placed under military rule for a time

14.

Era of rebuilding after the Civil War; Readmitting the Confederate states into the Union

a)

Impeachment

b)

Homestead

c)

Republicans

d)

Reconstruction

15.

Series of laws that restricted the rights of Freedmen

a)

Voting Rights

b)

Black Codes

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

d)

Hiram Rhodes Revels

16.

Gave assistance to newly freed slaves following emancipation; 1st schools for African American children

a)

Voting Rights

b)

Black Codes

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

d)

13th Amendment

17.

1st African American elected to the U.S. Senate

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Hiram Rhodes Revels

18.

Gave states federal land to build colleges

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Morrill Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

19.

Divided up Native American lands into sections for individual Natives to own and sold the rest

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Morrill Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

20.

Why was the compromise of 1877 important?

a)

The compromise of 1877 was important because it settled the dispute of the 1876 election and it pulled troops out of the South during the end of the reconstruction era.

b)

The compromise was important because it calmed the dispute of the 1896 election and it pulled troops out of the North during the end of the reconstruction era.

c)

The compromise was important because it settled the dispute of the 1986 election and it pulled troops out of Canada during the end of the reconstruction era.

d)

The compromise was important because it settled the dispute of the 1987 election and it pulled the people out of the West during the end of the reconstruction era.d