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Reconstruction Review #1

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 2hrs 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The ​ ​ ​ (a)   gave all American Citizens the right to American Citizenship

Choose from the below words
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
13th Amendment
2.

Which Amendment gave Black men the right to vote?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

3.

Match the correct Amendment to the correct explanation

a)

13th Amendment

1.

Abolished Slavery

b)

15th Amendment

2.

Gave all men the right to vote

c)

14th Amendment

3.

Gave all people born on American soil American citizenship & equal protection under the law

4.

The warden shall see that the white convicts shall have separate apartments for both eating and sleeping from the African-American convicts.

a)

Black Code

b)

Jim Crow Law

c)

13th Amendment

d)

14the Amendment

5.

Prohibited the marriage of African-Americans and whites.

a)

Black Code

b)

Jim Crow Law

c)

13th Amendment

d)

14the Amendment

6.

Restaurants could not serve meals to African-Americans and whites in the same room.

a)

Black Code

b)

Jim Crow Law

c)

13th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

7.

All freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes in this State, over the age of eighteen years…with no lawful employment or business,

or found unlawfully assembling themselves together, either

in the day or night time…shall be deemed vagrants [beggars]

a)

Black Code

b)

Jim Crow Law

c)

14th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

8.

No African-Americans or freedman shall be permitted to preach. … to congregations of colored people without a special permission from the mayor or president of the board of police”

a)

Black Code

b)

Emancipation

Proclamation

c)

14th Amendment

d)

13th Amendment

9.

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within designated States

a)

15th Amendment

b)

Emancipation

Proclamation

c)

14th Amendment

d)

13th Amendment

10.

Every negro is required to be in the regular service [employment] of some white person, or former owner, who shall be held responsible for the conduct of said Negro

a)

15th Amendment

b)

Emancipation

Proclamation

c)

Black Code

d)

Jim Crow Law

11.

This document went into effect on January 1, 1863.

a)

15th Amendment

b)

Emancipation

Proclamation

c)

Black Code

d)

Jim Crow Law

12.

Freedmen must have written evidence of employment for the coming year each January; if they leave before the end of the contract, they will be forced to forfeit earlier wages and were subject to arrest

a)

Black Code

b)

Emancipation

Proclamation

c)

13th Amendment

d)

Jim Crow Law

13.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

a)

Black Code

b)

15th Amendment

c)

13th Amendment

d)

Jim Crow Law

14.

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

a)

14th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

c)

13th Amendment

d)

Jim Crow Law

15.

This document was written by Pres. Abraham Lincoln

a)

14th Amendment

b)

Jim Crow Law

c)

13th Amendment

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

16.

John was required to pay a poll tax in order to vote.

Which amendment does this scenario violate?

a)

14th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

12th Amendment

17.

Susan went to work as a dressmaker. She made a dress  for a customer but the customer refused to pay.

Which amendment does this scenario violate?

a)

14th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

18.

A law was written in 2000 that requires police officers to arrest all black men that are out past 5pm.

Which amendment does this scenario violate?

a)

14th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

19.

This document was only effective if the North won the American Civil War.

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

13th Amendment

c)

Jim Crow Law

d)

16th Amendment

20.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

13th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

21.

No African-American or freedman shall be permitted to rent or keep a house within the limits of the town under any circumstances

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

13th Amendment

c)

Black Code

d)

Jim Crow Law

22.

What was the PURPOSE of the Emancipation Proclamation?

a)

Declared all enslaved persons in rebelling Confederate states to be free

b)

Declared the independence of Southern States from the Union

c)

Was authorized by General Ulysses S Grant

d)

Outlined the Constitutional rights of Southerners under the new Confederate government

23.

Which of the following was a major outcome of the US Civil War?

a)

The defeated South had to be reconstructed after the Confederate Army lost to Union forces.

b)

Northern soldiers returned home to find their agricultural way of life destroyed.

c)

The Southern States won their independence and became the still existing Confederate States of America.

d)

The United States annexed Mexico as the 38th state to join the Union

24.

In the South, the passage of Jim Crow laws by states in the 1870s and 1880s led directly to the....

a)

Racial integration of public schools

b)

Segregation of public facilities

c)

Organization of the Ku Klux Klan

d)

Decline of the Democratic party

25.

Which President wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

George Washington

d)

Abraham Lincoln