WorksheetsReconstruction Test Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 4mins
This was the program implemented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair damage to the South caused by the Civil War and restore the southern states to the Union
Reconstruction
Readmission
Civil Rights Acts
White League
All of the following were true about the South after the Civil War EXCEPT
African Americans lacked citizenship and ways to make a living
African Americans were still considered slaves
Homes and properties were destroyed and/or abandoned
Businesses closed down due to poor economy
At the start of Reconstruction, African Americans did NOT have any of the following EXCEPT
Freedom from slavery
Voting rights
Full citizenship
Access to education
Congressmen who advocated full citizenship rights for African Americans along with a harsh Reconstruction policy towards the South
Radical Republicans
Moderate Republicans
Southern Democrats
Free Soilers
This was an organization that helped feed, clothe, and educate newly freed African Americans and poor whites
Freedman's Bureau
White League
Klu Klux Klan
Radical Republicans
Which one of these was NOT true about Andrew Johnson?
He was Lincoln's Vice President and took over after he was assassinated
He was impeached by Congress
He passed all of the Radical Republican policies
He wanted to restore the status of southern states
Southern states did all of the following in response to rejoining the Union EXCEPT...
instituted black codes
limited the vote to white men
Sent former Confederate officials to Congress
Gave newly freed African Americans 40 acres and a mule
This was a law that established federal guarantees of civil rights for all citizens, passed despite President Johnson's veto
Civil Rights Act of 1866
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
13th Amendment
1868 constitutional amendment which defined citizenship and guarantees citizens equality under the law
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Klu Klux Klan Act
1870 constitutional amendment that guaranteed voting rights to men regardless of race or previous condition ofservitude
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Enforcement Acts
negative term for a white Southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction
carpetbagger
scalawag
Radical Republican
abolitionist
A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to take advantage of the condition of the south
Klansman
Southern Democrat
carpetbagger
scalawag
_______ the seperation of races was supported by democrats and many republicans wheras _______, the joining together of races was supported only by radicals.
integration, segregation
segregation, discrimination
segregation, integration
discrimination, integration
This was a system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small share of the crops profits, kept African Americans and poor whites in a cycle of poverty
Sharecropping
Tenant Farming
Share-tenancy
Slavery
All of the following were issues in the south during reconstruction EXCEPT
illiteracy
poor medical care
poor housing
lack of available farmland
Which one of the following DID NOT occur during Ulysses S. Grant's presidency?
An economic depression due to the failure of a national bank
Lots of scandals and corruption on local and national levels
The general public losing faith in its leaders
Radical Republicans holding control of southern state governments
_________ believed that African Americans should go to trade school and own businesses to advance in society, whereas _________ wanted African Americans to go to college/university and demand changes in laws to guarantee equality
Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois
W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois
All of the following contributed to the end of Reconstruction EXCEPT...
Radical Republican leaders and reformers passing away
Freedmans Bureau being dissolved
Military troops being removed from the South
Radical Republicans holding control of southern state governments
term for a white southern Democrat who returned to power after 1870, symbolized a return of power to white men in the South
Redeemer
Radical
Moderate
Grand Wizard
What happened as a result of the Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes (R) won the election of 1876 by one electoral vote
troops were withdrawn from south and their states were given money to build ports and railroads
Both
Neither
