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Reconstruction Amendments

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the Reconstruction Amendments addressed the right of African-American males to vote?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

2.

Which of these was NOT a method using to prevent blacks from voting in the South?

a)

Poll taxes

b)

Literacy tests

c)

Income taxes

d)

The "Grandfather Clause"

3.

What man was used as the symbol for anti-black laws in the South?

a)

John Kennedy

b)

Jim Crow

c)

Jack Law

d)

Johnny South

4.

What three amendments are considered the Reconstruction Amendments?

a)

1st, 2nd, 3rd

b)

13th, 14th, 15th

c)

25th, 26th, 27th

d)

4th, 5th, 6th

5.

Southern laws meant to keep African-Americans socially and politically inferior to whites were called...

a)

Black codes

b)

Slave codes

c)

Reconstruction Amendments

d)

Poll taxes

6.
This  was the rebuilding of the country after the Civil War?
a)
Sherman's March to the Sea
b)
Reconstruction
c)
WWI
d)
Freedmen's Bureau 
7.
This amendment abolished slavery. 
a)
12th 
b)
13th 
c)
14th
d)
15th
8.
Abraham Lincoln was president during Reconstruction.
a)
True
b)
False
9.

The 15th Amendment gives the right to vote to...

a)

African-American males

b)

African-American men and women

c)

All citizens (men and women)

d)

White men without property

10.
Amendment to the US Constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation.
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
11.
Amendment to the US Constitution that ensured the citizenship of former slaves.  It provides “equal protection of the laws” for all U.S. citizens.
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
12.
Period of reuniting the North and the South after the Civil War that lasted from 1865-1876
a)
Reinstituting
b)
Reconstruction
c)
Progressive Era
d)
Destructive Period
13.
Northerners who went South after the Civil War during the time of Reconstruction
a)
Scalawags
b)
Carpetbaggers
c)
Pioneers
d)
Homesteaders
14.

What were people who wanted to outlaw slavery called?

a)

Prohibitionists

b)

Abolitionists

c)

Federalists

d)

Slavers

e)

Legalists

15.
Amendment to the US Constitution that forbade any state to deny any citizen the right to vote due to “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Equal protection under the law
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
16.

What president issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

George Bush

c)

Jimmy Carter

d)

John Adams

17.

Larry, a farm owner, refused to pay his helpers for the work they did. What amendment was broken?

a)

13th amendment

b)

14th amendment

c)

15th amendment

18.
Jim Crow Laws included __________________
a)
separate schools, restaurants and bathrooms 
b)
poll taxes 
c)
literacy tests in order to vote 
d)
All of the above 
19.

The Fourteenth Amendment was initially put into place to protect what group of people?

a)

Former slave owners

b)

Freed slaves

c)

Members of Congress

d)

Former presidents

20.

William, a southern African American, had all his land taken away for no reason. What amendment was broken?

a)

13th amendment

b)

14th amendment

c)

15th amendment

21.

Which amendment to the US Constitution prohibited the state and federal governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen because of "race?"

a)

12th

b)

13th

c)

14th

d)

15th

22.

Which amendment to the US Constitution granted full citizenship to all people born in the United States?

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1981

b)

14th amendment

c)

15th amendment

d)

hippos

23.
This vocab word means the separation of races
a)
manipulation
b)
consecration
c)
segregation
d)
fortudination 
24.
The most common form of farmwork for freed people was what?
a)
Subsistence farming
b)
Plantations
c)
Sharecropping
d)
GMO's
25.
System of farming where plantation owners would lend former slaves a place to live in exchange for farming crops
a)
Sharecropping
b)
Freedmen's Bureua
c)
Jim Crow Laws
d)
Slavery

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