WorksheetsReconstruction
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which of the following best defines the term Reconstruction?
The amendment that outlawed slavery
The time period (1865-1877) when former confederate states were reintegrated into the country.
The amendment that guaranteed citizenship to newly freed enslaved people and gave them equal protection.
Strict states laws passed after the Civil War.
Andrew Johnson's plan for reconstruction, in which southern states were mostly allowed to control the reconstruction process, was called?
Radical Republicans
Presidential Reconstruction
Reconstruction Acts of 1867
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This political party, mostly in the north, advocated for harsh punishments for the south, an immediate end to slavery, and the allowing black suffrage (voting).
Freedmen's Bureau
Radical Republicans
Confederates
Carpetbaggers
This man was the 17th U.S. president, assumed office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), and was the first American president to be impeached.
Hiram Revels
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Hillary Clinton
These strict state laws were passed after the Civil War, restricting black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.
Compromise of 1877
Black Codes
15th Amendment
Reconstruction Acts.
These acts were passed by congress, despite President Johnson's Veto. They protected the citizenship and voting rights of black Americans in the south.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
15th Amendment
13th Amendment
Reconstruction Acts of 1867
What was the farming system that kept freed African Americans in debt and poverty?
Slavery
Sharecropping
Jim Crow
13th Amendment
How did the South try to keep African Americans from voting?
Literacy tests
Poll taxes
Intimidation
All of the above
What was the purpose of the Black Codes?
To restrict the labor and rights of black Americans
To create segregated facilities
To abolish slavery
To protect civil rights
