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Reconstruction

Total questions: 53

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

(a)   this sign represents what laws in the South

Choose from the below words
Racial Rules
Lincoln Laws
Black Codes 
Jim Crow Laws
2.
Segregation in the South was mainly based on 
a)
hair color
b)
religion
c)
race (color of the skin)
d)
economic status
3.

What TWO best describes Jim Crow laws?

a)

The South's way to avoid the 13th,14th, & 15th Amendment

b)
African Americans gaining full civil and political rights
c)
discrimination laws focused on Native Americans
d)
unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education
4.

The South adopted laws called (a)  

Choose from the below words
Brown Codes
Black Laws
Brown Laws
Black Codes
5.

Jim Crow laws covered which of the following (select all that apply)

a)

Education

b)

Restaurants

c)

Marriage

d)

Transportation

6.

What was the intent of the Black Codes?

a)

To ensure freedoms for African Americans in the South

b)

To dismiss freedmen from elected positions in state governments

c)

To establish local laws to protect African Americans from mob violence

d)

To restrict the rights of freedmen after the end of slavery

7.

What did the withdrawal of federal troops from the South lead to?

a)

The expansion of rights for African Americans

b)

An era of oppressive race relations in the South

c)

Unity between southern Democrats and Republicans

d)

The repeal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

8.

Which of the following is TRUE about sharecropping

a)

Sharecropping favored the freeedmen.

b)

Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping

c)

Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty

d)

Many state governments offered loan for sharecropping farmers.

9.

Amendment that abolished slavery in America (a)  

Choose from the below words
XIII( 13)
XIV (14)
X (10)
XV (15)
10.

Can not be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or having been a slave (a)  

Choose from the below words
XIII (13)
XIV (14)
XV (15)
XI (11)
11.

Due process, EQUAL PROTECTION, Citizens (a)  

Choose from the below words
XIII (13)
XIV (14)
XV (15)
XVI (16)
12.

Which amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote in 1869? (a)  

Choose from the below words
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
13.
Which amendment said anyone born in United States is a citizen in 1868?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
14.

What needed to have 10% in Lincoln's ten Percent Plan?

a)

10% of plantation owners needed to free their slaves

b)

10% of white male southerners pledge an oath of loyalty to the United States

c)

10% of Confederate troops would be imprisoned for war crimes

d)

10% of former slaves would have to be registered to vote

15.

Which two plans would allow for pardons for those who fought or assisted the Confederacy?

a)

Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan

b)

Johnson's Presidential Plan

c)

Radical Republican Plan

16.

Who in Congress proposed a bill that was much more strict than the plan Lincoln created?

a)

Wade Davis

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Robert E Lee

d)

Stephen Douglass

17.

Who was the Civil War fought between?

a)

Union and North

b)

Confederates and the South

c)

Union and the Confederacy

d)

Colonists and the English

18.

Which of the following is a FALSE statement about The Underground Railroad?

a)

Many Radical Republicans helped slaves escape.

b)

Many Quakers helped slaves escape

c)

Many abolitionist helped slaves escape.

d)

Many Southern Democrats helped slaves escape.

19.

What was the goal of the Anaconda Plan?

a)

To surround the Confederate States and cut them off from help and supplies

b)

To place Confederate armies like a wall around the North

c)

Striking quickly at key cities and bases in the South

d)

To gain foreign support for the Union Army

20.

Why did the radicals not approve of Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?

a)

Granted too many rights to Freedmen

b)

Did not allow for a quick way for the South to rejoin the Union

c)

Offered amnesty to Confederates who swore allegiance to the Union

d)

Demanded payments from the South that would have damaged the economy

21.

Abraham Lincoln made this speech in 1863 after a serious battle. The speech referenced the founding of the US, self-government, and the re-dedication to the belief that all people are created equal.

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

The Gettysburg Address

c)

The Army of Northern Virginia

d)

The 54th of Massachusetts

22.

At which fort did the first hostilities of the Civil War take place?

a)

Fort Wagner

b)

Fort Sumter

c)

Fort Hood

d)

For Warren

23.

a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction, either through political or economic opportunities. Often a person perceived as an unscrupulous opportunist. A snakeoil salesman.

a)

Northern Opportunist

b)

Carpetbagger

c)

Sharecropper

d)

Northern Antagonizer

24.

The name given to a faction in the U.S. Congress which advocated emancipation of slaves before and during the Civil War, and insisted on harsh penalties for the South following the war, during the period of Reconstruction.

a)

Democratic-Republicans

b)

War Hawks

c)

Emancipationists

d)

Radical Republicans

25.

 What agency was created by the United States Congress in 1865 to set up schools and churches, supply food and clothing, and solve employment issues for the former slaves?

a)

the American Missionary Association

b)

the Freedmen's Bureau

c)

the Ku Klux Klan

d)

the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - NAACP

26.

What was the low point of White/Black relations in US History known as?

a)

Reconstruction

b)

Nadir

c)

Jim Crow

d)

Civil Rights Movement

27.

What do you call a person who was opposed to slavery and worked toward ending it?

a)

Secessionist

b)

Lincolnist

c)

Abolitionist

d)

Whig

28.

What does secede mean?

a)

withdraw (leave) formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political organization

b)

compulsory recruitment for military service

c)

the right to vote in political elections

d)

to be arrested in Gotham City

29.

Created Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory and allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. The long-standing compromise would have to be repealed. The North was outraged. The passage of this Act and the violence that followed have been thought to have hastened the Country into Civil War.

a)

Missouri Compromise (of 1820)

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Fugitive Slave Law

d)

Secession by the Southern States

30.
Scalawags were...
a)
Northerners who took advantage of southern economic hardships 
b)
Southern Republicans
c)
former Confederate Leaders
d)
African Americans
31.

Once a Native American Tribe submitted to Federal authority [or was forced to submit] where were they forced to live?

a)

The Black Hills

b)

Reservation

c)

Sharecropping co-op

32.

1st African American elected to the U.S. Senate

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Crispus Attucks

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Hiram Rhodes Revels

33.
The Dawes Act...
a)
Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
b)
divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
c)
provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
d)
established the route for the Transcontinental railroad
34.
What did the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the annexation of Texas in 1845, and the Mexican War of 1846 have in common?
a)
They brought about a war with Spain.
b)
They increased the territory of the United States.
c)
Each resulted in territory annexed by the United States.
d)
Each involved land forcibly taken from Mexico.
35.

What/why was the Union fighting for?

a)

To keep the Union[America] whole & End slavery

b)

To keep the confederation strong & keep Slavery

36.

True or False: Abraham Lincoln wanted the South to be Punished severely for their actions during the civil war?

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

37.

A system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work?

a)

Debt Passage

b)

Debt Sharing

c)

Debt Peonage

38.

The action of making a person or thing American in character or nationality: Example: Native Americans being forced to convert religions, speak English, and dress like "white" settlers.

a)

Colonizing

b)

Individualism

c)

Destructrilism

d)

Americanization

39.

President Polk won the Election of 1844 by a landslide because...

a)

He was the only person running for President

b)

He was committed to fulfilling the goals of Manifest Destiny

c)

He was a "Common Man" and people felt connected to him

d)

He actually didn't win, Henry Clay was the 11th President

40.

Letter 'E" marks which of the following:

a)

United States in 1783

b)

Mexican Cession

c)

Texas

d)

The Louisiana Purchase

41.

Why was the area marked by letter "C" added to the U.S.?

a)

The U.S. needed to flat terrain to build the Transcontinental Railroad

b)

The U.S. won the area after the border disputes were settled

c)

Mexico just gave the land to the U.S. in order to preserve peace

d)

The U.S. had always owned the land

42.

Which area of land was added in 1803?

a)

A

b)

C

c)

E

d)

D

43.

Which area of land was acquired in 1848 after a conflict with Mexico?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

E

44.

What state was given to the U.S. as part of the Adam-Onis treaty with Spain in 1819?

a)

Texas

b)

California

c)

Florida

d)

Oregon

45.

When the U.S. acquired land area "A" it had reached it's goal of....

a)

Taking over all of Spain's Territory

b)

Taking over all of Mexico's Territory

c)

Pushing Great Britain out of North America

d)

Reaching the Pacific Ocean

46.

All of the following were causes of the U.S.-Mexico War EXCEPT:

a)

The Annexation of Texas

b)

The U.S. claims to Oregon

c)

Border disputes between the U.S. and Mexico

47.

What land area was acquired after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

48.

The Homestead Act offered free land in hopes to encourage what?

a)

western settlement of the U.S.

b)

nothing

c)

people from the west to move back east

d)

people from the South to move to the North

49.

What group of people settled in present day Utah after leaving the east coast because of religious persecution?

a)

The Catholics

b)

The Mormons

c)

The Forty-Niners

d)

Spanish Settlers

50.

Manifest Destiny offered many people...

a)

Economic Opportunity

b)

Nothing

c)

More Factory Jobs

d)

New Technological Innovations

51.

What state boomed in 1849 due to the Gold Rush?

a)

Texas

b)

Florida

c)

Oregon

d)

California

52.

Which of the following was not a reason to support Manifest Destiny?

a)

Hatred of Foreign Nations

b)

Economic Opportunity

c)

To open new markets of trade

d)

to spread the U.S. style of government (Democracy)

53.

What was the start point for most trails west?

a)

St. Louis/Independence Missouri

b)

Salt Lake City Utah

c)

San Francisco California

d)

Boston Massachusetts