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Total questions: 58
Worksheet time: 31mins
Lincoln's Reconstruction needed southern states to have at least ________ % of the voting population take a loyalty oath.
10
30
50
99
The __________Amendment outlawed slavery.
13th
14th
15th
___________________ wanted African Americans to have full citizenship.
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
Radical Republicans
Union Army
What amendment made all people born in the United States citizens?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
What amendment grants all citizens equal protection of the laws?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Literacy tests were created as a way to suppress African American voters after the passage of the _______________.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Landowners allowed farmers to use their fields in exchange for a share of the crop they grew, this was known as _____________
mixed farming
multiple cropping
tilling
sharecropping
The main goal of these laws were to keep whites and African Americans separate in public places.
Racial Segregation Laws
Jim Crow Laws
Separation of Color Laws
Literacy Tests
The Freedmen's Bureau helped former slaves struggling to ________________.
find more people to work on plantations
find food and shelter
find jobs in factories
rebuild transportation such as railroads
Sharecropping was like a new form of slavery, because farmers were always ________________.
in debt to the landowners
debt free from the landowners.
making lots of money from the landowners.
forced to work certain hours.
Who would have most likely NOT supported the Freedmen's Bureau?
An abolitionist
a carpetbagger
a former slave owner
a northern business owner
President Lincoln thought the Wade-Davis bill was:
too easy on the South because it only required 10 percent of southerners to take an oath of loyalty to the Union.
too harsh on the South because it required 50 percent of southerners to take an oath of loyalty to the Union.
a perfect way to reunite the North and South.
better to be renamed the "Davis-Wade" bill, to put the names in alphabetical order.
After the 13th Amendment, many freedmen agreed to provide labor on plantations, in exchange for sharing part of the harvested crop. This agreement was called ________.
labor sharing
shared harvest
land sharing
sharecropping
What did Radical Republicans want to accomplish?
punishment for Union military officers and returning to pre-Civil War policies
punishment for Confederate leaders and protection of the rights of freedmen
to secede from the Union
to reinstate the practice of slavery
Radical Republicans thought President Johnson's Reconstruction plan was too easy on the South and did not protect freedmen. After Johnson decided to remove the Secretary of War, what did they do about this?
They voted to re-elect President Lincoln.
They tried to impeach President Johnson.
They set their differences aside in hopes of uniting the nation.
They vetoed his plan and wrote a new one.
What problems did formerly enslaved people face during Reconstruction?
Black Codes
lack of education
sharecropping
All of the above
What group was known for its use of violence and intimidation against its enemies during Reconstruction?
Radical Republicans
freedmen
sharecroppers
the Ku Klux Klan
How did sharecropping affect freedmen?
Sharecropping hurt freedmen because it kept them in a cycle of debt to white landowners.
Sharecropping helped freedmen because white landowners had to pay them for labor and they were able to save their money.
Sharecropping helped freedmen because they finally owned their own land.
Sharecropping did not affect freedmen because only white landowners were sharecroppers.
In what ways did the Freedmen's Bureau help freedmen?
The Bureau helped the Ku Klux Klan by guiding freedmen to their "proper place."
The Bureau helped white plantation owners find freedmen to exploit.
The Bureau helped create sharecropping and the freedmen's cycle of debt to white landowners.
The Bureau helped people find jobs and medical care, and supported education.
Which group of people does the picture and quote above make reference to during the Reconstruction Era?
Freed African Americans
Carpetbaggers
Southern military leaders
Northern politicians
Black Codes were designed to do all of the following EXCEPT _________.
Prohibit African Americans from finding a job or buying a house.
Limit the physical freedom of former enslaved African Americans.
Limit the economic freedom of former enslaved African Americans.
Aid former enslaved African Americans.
After Reconstruction, the system of segregation was supported by _________.
Immigration Laws
Jim Crow Laws
Black Codes
Civil Rights Laws
Following the Civil War, what was established to aid former enslaved African Americans in the South?
NAACP
Freedmen's Bureau
Black Codes
Temperance Movement
Which group was removed from the South at the end of Reconstruction?
Southern military leaders
Public officials
Slaves
Federal troops
What brought an end to Reconstruction after the disputed presidential election of Rutherford B. Hayes?
Compromise of 1877
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Ku Klux Klan
Jim Crow Laws
Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan called for ________ and preservation of the Union over punishing the South.
Emancipation
Reconciliation
Voting Rights
Segregation
The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau was to
provide 40 acres and a mule for each slave.
gain the vote for millions of former slaves.
provide work, education, and relief for former slaves.
get radical Republicans in positions of power in the South.
Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education & accepted social segregation
Frederick Douglass
Booker T Washington
WEB Dubois
Harvard graduate who co-founded the NAACP
Frederick Douglass
Booker T Washington
WEB Dubois
What was the nickname for the person this cartoon is portraying?
carpetbagger
Jim Crow
Freedman
Scalawag
How did southern Democrats feel about the Freedmen's Bureau
They liked it because it was a fair way to spend tax money.
They did not like it because it gave too much power to the President.
They liked it because it helped the Ku Klux Klan
They did not like it because it spent their tax money on African Americans.
How did African Americans elevate into the middle class during Reconstruction?
Schools were built and newly freed slaves became educated.
The 15th amendment was passed giving African Americans the right to vote.
Carpetbaggers ensured that African Americans could have any job that they were qualified for.
All of the above.
How did President Lincoln succeed in permanently abolishing the practice represented by the tree in this cartoon (the word on the tree is "slavery")?
By promoting the passage and approval of the 13th Amendment
By promoting the passage and approval of the 14th Amendment
By promoting the passage and approval of the 15th Amendment
By promoting the passage and approval of the 16th Amendment
Allowed people to vote without barriers if their ancestor had voted before Reconstruction.
Segregation
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Grandfather Clause
Bought a train ticket (7/8th white) he sat in the white train car. He wanted to test the constitutionality of the law. Court case stated that states could separate the races as long as there equal facilities making segregation the law of the land unit 1954.
Rosa Parks
Abraham Lincoln
Homer Plessy
John Wilkes Booth
This former general and President tried to help African Americans, unlike his predecessor, but had many problems running the country because many of his advisers had become corrupt.
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes
Barack Obama
This man was the first president to be impeached because fired many members of Lincoln's Cabinet and tried to undermine Reconstruction by being incredibly racist.
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes
Donald Trump
