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WorksheetsGrade 8, Unit 1 - Reconstruction
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 12mins
What was the major cause of the American Civil War?
Slavery
States' Rights
The Southern states seceding
All of the above
What was the name of the country the Southern states in rebellion attempted to form?
The Union
The Confederate States of America
The Rebellious States of the South
The United States of the South
Who was President during the American Civil War?
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
What was the name of the document/speech that freed all of the slaves in the rebellious Southern states?
The Gettysburg Address
The Freedom Accord
The Declaration of Liberation
The Emancipation Proclamation
Which Amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States?
13th
14th
15th
16th
Approximately how many Americans died in the Civil War?
30,000
300,000
60,000
600,000
Approximately how much did the Civil War cost?
$3 million
$12 million
$3 billion
$12 billion
The period after the Civil War was known as what era?
Antebellum Era
Reconstruction Era
Union Era
Confederate Era
Why was President Lincoln not able to complete his plan for Reconstruction?
He lost the election
He lost the war
He was assassinated
Congress voted against it
After the Civil War, what did Lincoln want to do with the Southerners who had joined the Confederacy?
He wanted them to be hung
He wanted them to be put in prison
He wanted them to be kicked out of the country
He wanted them to be pardoned
How did the Southern states continue to limit the freedom of African-Americans in the South after the Civil War?
Violence
Segregation
Poll taxes, Grandfather clause, Literacy Tests
All of the above
What is segregation?
Preventing African-Americans from voting
Providing assistance to people in need
Separation of the races in public places
The initiation of a person into the Ku Klux Klan
What was significant about the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case?
It made segregation illegal
It allowed for segregation in all public places
It was the first time segregation was discussed in court
It ruled separate was not equal
What, or who, was Jim Crow?
Laws that discriminated against African-Americans in the South
The Supreme Court Justice who ruled on Plessy v. Ferguson
The man who arrested Homer Plessy for sitting in the "whites only" section
The Congressman who decided to end Reconstruction
The system of allowing servants to work on a plantation for very little money while charging them rent to use the tools and live there is called what?
Slavery
Domestic Servants
Involuntary Servitude
Sharecropping
What was a poll tax?
A tax that former slaves had to pay for their freedom
A tax the South had to pay for seceding from the Union
A tax that Congress passed to pay for the 15th Amendment
A tax that black men had to pay in order to vote
Which of the following were major causes of the American Civil War?
John Brown's Raid of Harper's Ferry
The Election of Abraham Lincoln
Slavery
The Fugitive Slave Law
All of the above
There were hundreds of slave rebellions in the history of America.
True
False
What OFFICIALLY ended slavery in America?
13th Amendment
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Election of Abraham Lincoln
When the Union (North) won the Civil War
Who won the American Civil War?
The Union
The Confederacy
Americans all agreed on how to reconstruct America after the Civil War.
True
False
Which vocabulary word below means "to forgive someone for a crime they have committed".
Felony
Treason
Pardon
Reconstruction
These were a series of laws meant to provide equality for former slaves in the South.
Black Codes
Jim Crow laws
Fugitive Slave Law
Reconstruction Amendments
These were a series of laws in the South meant to take away rights from African-Americans and former slaves.
Johnson Plan
Black Codes
Wade-Davis Plan
Reconstruction Amendments
Segregation existed in the North & South.
True
False
This amendment gave citizenship to anyone born in U.S.
13
14
15
This amendment abolished (ended) slavery in America.
13
14
15
This amendment gave all black men in America the right to vote.
13
14
15
Name the Reconstruction Plan: Pardon Southerners, swear an oath, some support for former slaves
Lincoln Plan
Johnson Plan
Radical Republican (Wade-Davis) Plan
Name the Reconstruction Plan: Pardon Southerners, swear an oath, no support to former slaves
Lincoln Plan
Johnson Plan
Radical Republican (Wade-Davis) Plan
Name the Reconstruction Plan: Punish Southerners, $12 million of federal support to former slaves.
Lincoln Plan
Johnson Plan
Radical Republican (Wade-Davis) Plan
How did Southern states limit the rights of African-Americans?
Jim Crow
Black Codes
Segregation
Violence & Intimidation
All of the above
Who became President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Jefferson Davis
Who was President of the Confederacy?
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
John Wilkes Boothe
