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Reconstruction

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Group that wanted to punish the South for the Civil War and slavery

a)

Democrats

b)

Bull Moose Party

c)

Radical Republicans

d)

Whig Party

2.

Made slavery illegal in the United States

a)

15th Amendment

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

14th Amendment

d)

13th Amendment

3.

This bill would have given former enslaved people 40 acres and a mule

a)

Wade-Davis Bill

b)

Emancipation

Proclamation

c)

Freeman Act

4.

Reconstruction is.....

a)

the time after the Cold WAr

b)

time after WWII

c)

Time after the Civil War

d)

Time after the Civil Rights Movement

5.

To accuse the President of wrongdoing

a)

House Function

b)

Judicial Review

c)

impeach

d)

Black Code

6.

Based on this image what was a something the Freeman's Bureau did

a)

Move former slaves to the north

b)

Provide insurance

c)

Educate former slaves

d)

Force child labor

7.

Laws that took away the rights of African Americans in the South

a)

New Lodge Act

b)

Trail of Tears

c)

Radical Republicans

d)

Black Codes

8.

Gave people born in the United States full citizenship rights

a)

14th Amendment

b)

13th amendment

c)

5th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

9.

What was part of Lincoln's reconstruction

a)

Southern States needed to outlaw slavery

b)

Give the right to vote to former slaves

c)

All former slaves were given 40 acres and a mule

10.

Farmer is given land and gives a portion crops to landlord for rent

a)

Three Field System

b)

Sharecropper

c)

Gentleman Farmer

11.

True or False: African Americans had representation in Congress

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Why was there no representation of African Americans after Reconstruction until the 1990s?

a)

White people in the South would not vote for Republicans

b)

The former slaves all moved north

c)

Southern States did prevented African Americans the right to vote

13.

Many former slaves and poor whites had this job

a)

Ferry Boat Captains

b)

Plantation Owners

c)

Sharecropper

d)

Lawyers

14.

The greatest success of Reconstruction is

a)

Public education in the South

b)

Railroad expansion

c)

Equal rights for former slaves

15.

The South was destroyed after the Civil War

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Terrorist organization that wanted to take the rights away from formerly enslaved people.

a)

Fenian Brotherhood

b)

Free Mansions

c)

Ku Klux Klan

d)

Knights of Labor

17.

Helped former slaves and war refugees

a)

Sisters of the Poor

b)

Freeman's Bureau

c)

Tuskegee Institute

d)

Homeland Security

18.

Northern people that moved south were called

a)

Yankee Candles

b)

carpetbaggers

c)

copperheads

19.

Greatest failure of Reconstruction

a)

Ending sharecropping

b)

Not providing equal rights to African Americans

c)

Industrializing the South