WorksheetsReconstruction
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 23mins
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
An organization that gave help and a few civil rights to newly freed slaves
A group of racist men who hated black people
Former Confederates who came together to burn houses in the northern states
An organization that planned a rebellion against the white men in power
Who won the Civil War?
The Union
The Confederacy
Who assassination President Abraham Lincoln?
Lee Harvey Oswald
John Wilkes Booth
Charles J. Guiteau
What were Black Codes?
a secret code the KKK would use when planning their attacks
laws that denied African Americans many civil rights
laws that made slavery legal again
codes the Union would use to fight against the Confederacy
Why was Fisk University so important?
it was one of the first black schools in the US
Rosa Parks went there
it was the first university to have a football team
it was the headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan
The _____ was a terrorist organization that used violence and intimidation to deprive African Americans of their rights.
White Bullies
Ku Klux Klan
Radical Republicans
The Confederacy
Toward the end of Reconstruction, were there any African Americans who were a part of the US Congress?
Yes, there were 16 of them in Congress
No, they were not allowed to be in Congress
What was sharecropping?
a system of farming where farmers rent land and pay the landowner with a share of the crops
a system of planting crops then harvesting them
a land which the farmer grew trees
a way for freedmen to make a lot of money
Which of the following is TRUE about sharecropping?
sharecropping gave African Americans the freedom they deserved
many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping
most sharecroppers remained in a cycle of debt
many state governments offered loans for sharecropping farmers that they never had to pay back
What were Jim Crow Laws?
laws that made African Americans slaves again
laws that prevented whites from working in any position of power
laws that gave African Americans the right to vote
laws that enforced segregation, the separation of blacks and whites
What was created at the Tennessee Constitutional Convention?
a new state constitution for Tennessee
a new constitution for the entire United States
laws that gave everyone equal rights
A Poll Tax required everyone to ____ in order to vote
fill out a form
pay
sell goods
Which amendment gave African Americans citizenship?
(a)
Which amendment gave all men the right to vote?
(a)
Which amendment abolished slavery?
(a)
