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Reconstruction Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Lincoln's plan to make a certain amount of people in each southern state pledge their loyalty to the United States before rejoining the Union is known as the:

a)

Loyalty Plan

b)

Pledge of Allegiance Plan

c)

Ten Percent Plan

d)

Five Percent Plan

2.

The group of Republicans in Congress who led Congressional Reconstruction were known as the:

a)

Radical Republicans

b)

Reconstruction Republicans

c)

Realistic Republicans

d)

Redeemer Republicans

3.

PICK THE AMENDMENT: The purpose of the 13th Amendment was to:

a)

Give African Americans the right to vote

b)

Make African Americans citizens

c)

Abolish slavery

4.

PICK THE AMENDMENT: This amendment makes African Americans citizens of the United States

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

5.

PICK THE AMENDMENT: African Americans gained the right to vote as a result of the:

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

6.

Former slaves often worked on farms owned by their former owners in exchange for half of whatever was grown and harvested. This system, which ultimately kept former slaves in poverty, was known as:

a)

Crop Rotation

b)

Plantation system

c)

Sharecropping

d)

Manufacturing

7.

This government agency helped former slaves by building schools and hospitals, training teachers, and providing food and clothing.

a)

Social Security

b)

Freedmen's Bureau

c)

Monroe Doctrine

d)

Black Codes

8.

What ended reconstruction?

a)

The Reconstruction Act of 1867

b)

The Compromise of 1877

c)

The Civil War

9.

Free people who had previously been enslaved were known as __________.

a)

freedmen

b)

unslaved

c)

new citizens

d)

righteous and harmonious fists

10.

What did Radical Republicans want to accomplish?

a)

punishment for Union military officers and returning to pre-Civil War policies

b)

punishment for Confederate leaders and protection of the rights of freedmen

c)

to secede from the Union

d)

to reinstate the practice of slavery

11.

Which of the following tried to limit the rights of African Americans in order to help the planter elite hold onto slavery-like conditions?

a)

The Freedmen's Bureau

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Black Codes

d)

Radical Republicans

12.

What group was known for its use of violence and intimidation against its enemies during Reconstruction?

a)

Radical Republicans

b)

freedmen

c)

sharecroppers

d)

the Ku Klux Klan

13.

In what ways did the Freedmen's Bureau help freedmen?

a)

The Bureau helped the Ku Klux Klan by guiding freedmen to their "proper place."

b)

The Bureau helped white plantation owners find freedmen to exploit.

c)

The Bureau helped create sharecropping and the freedmen's cycle of debt to white landowners.

d)

The Bureau helped people find jobs and medical care, and supported education.

14.
What was Reconstruction?
a)
equal treatment for all people
b)
the forced separation of races
c)
a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
d)
the period of time after the Civil War
15.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
a)
equal treatment for all people
b)
laws that made segregation legal
c)
a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
d)
the period of time after the Civil War
16.

What famous phrase came out of the Plessy v Ferguson case?

a)
"Separate but equal"
b)
"Give me liberty or give me death."
c)
"May the force be with you."
d)
"I'll be back."
17.

What unfair system was created to exploit the fact that many Freedmen could not read and write?

a)

poll tax

b)

literacy test

c)

sharecropping

d)

grandfather clause

18.
Jim Crow Laws passed after Reconstruction took away African American Voting Rights using...
a)
Voter Registration Laws
b)
Political Gerrymandering
c)
Voter Identification Laws
d)
Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests
19.
Black Codes made it difficult for African Americans to enjoy their freedoms.
a)
True
b)
false
20.
Jim Crow laws enforced segregation based on race.
a)
True
b)
false