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Reconstruction Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 22mins

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Class
Date
1.

The Thirteenth Amendment effectively completed the work that began with which government law or decision?

a)

the Fugitive Slave Act

b)

the Missouri Compromise

c)

the Great Compromise

d)

The Emancipation Proclamation

2.

How did Southern state governments react to the work of the Freedmen's

Bureau?

a)

They made the work difficult by passing Jim Crow laws.

b)

They made the work difficult by outlawing sharecropping

c)

They helped the bureau by registering former slaves to vote.

d)

They helped the bureau by donating land for new universities

3.

What was the goal of the Freedmen's Bureau?

a)

to help unmarried men find jobs and protect the environment

b)

to provide electricity and help control floods in Tennessee

c)

to create jobs by building roads and bridges in the South

d)

to provide housing and medical care to former slaves

4.

The Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution expanded

a)

consumer rights

b)

workers' rights.

c)

voting rights

d)

women's rights.

5.

What was common in the sharecropping system in the post–Civil War

South?

a)

Sharecroppers combined their new lands to grow more crops.

b)

Sharecroppers kept most of their crops in their own communities.

c)

Sharecroppers sold their crops to plantation owners to buy more land.

d)

Sharecroppers had to give landowners crops in return for the right to

farm.

6.

One intention of the Jim Crow laws passed in many southern states was

to

a)

create segregated public schools.

b)

force the closure of most plantations.

c)

outlaw the practice of sharecropping.

d)

help fund Reconstruction-era public works.

7.

Which constitutional amendment, or amendments, expanded the effects

of the Emancipation Proclamation?

a)

the Fifteenth Amendment only

b)

the Thirteenth Amendment only

c)

the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments

d)

the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments

8.

After the Civil War, sharecropping in the United States was MOST helpful

to

a)

Landowners

b)

former slaves

c)

farm workers

d)

veterans

9.

Why was the Freedmen's Bureau created

a)

to run state and local governments in the South

b)

to assist in the industrialization of the Southern states

c)

to punish Southern states for their role in the Civil War

d)

to provide aid to former slaves and poor whites in the South

10.

During the Jim Crow era, southern leaders prevented many African

Americans from voting by

a)

canceling elections.

b)

using secret ballots.

c)

requiring special tests.

d)

printing fake news articles.

11.

How did southern legislatures enforce racial segregation after

Reconstruction?

a)

They passed Jim Crow laws.

b)

They outlawed sharecropping

c)

They created the Freedmen's Bureau.

d)

They proposed the Fourteenth Amendment

12.

Which statement about the Fifteenth Amendment is correct?

a)

It freed all slaves in the United States.

b)

It protected former slaves' right to vote

c)

It lowered the voting age to eighteen

d)

It banned discrimination against women.

13.

What were the purposes of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments?

a)

to protect the voting rights of women

b)

to make the federal government stronger

c)

to guarantee the rights of African Americans

d)

to punish states for seceding from the Union

14.

In exchange for being granted land to farm, sharecroppers were required

to

a)

provide housing for soldiers serving in the army.

b)

perform cleaning duties in the landowner's home.

c)

return much of the harvest to the owner of the land.

d)

settle on land in the unexplored western United States.

15.

What was the effect of the Thirteenth Amendment?

a)

It freed all slaves in the United States.

b)

It granted citizenship to African Americans.

c)

It banned discrimination against former slaves.

d)

It extended the right to vote to African Americans.

16.

Why did the sharecropping system expand in the South after the Civil

War?

a)

Owners of large farms did not have enough labor while many former

slaves did not have jobs.

b)

The federal government gave small pieces of land to soldiers who

served in the Civil War.

c)

Former slaveholders were forced to let former slaves use their land as

a form of punishment.

d)

The Reconstruction governments forced plantation owners to give

their land to former slaves.

17.

Many problems limited the success of the Freedmen's Bureau. Which of

the following was NOT one of those problems?

a)

opposition by white Southerners

b)

little interest from former slaves

c)

a shortage of funds for its programs

d)

too few employees to carry out its tasks

18.

Which organization formed during Reconstruction in order to prevent

African Americans from exercising their rights?

a)

The Freedman's Bureau

b)

The Ku Klux Klan

c)

The confederate army

d)

the Sons of Liberty

19.

How does this illustration reflect the work of the Freedmen's Bureau?

a)

The organization was responsible for running local governments in the

South.

b)

The organization worked to promote education for former slaves in

the South.

c)

The organization was responsible for enforcing Jim Crow laws in the

South.

d)

The organization worked to convert former slaves to Christianity in

the South.

20.

The man in the middle is protecting the African Americans in the South. Which group of people does the man in the middle represent?

a)

Plantation Owners

b)

The Confederate Veterans

c)

The Freedman's Bureau

d)

The Underground Railroad