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Reconstruction | Fast & Curious

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which Amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

2.

Which Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

3.

Which Amendment provides the rite to vote to African-American men?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

4.

Which policies were used to limit African-Americans freedom during Reconstruction?

a)

Freedman's Bureau

b)

Black Codes

c)

Fugitive Slave Laws

d)

Big Stick Diplomacy

5.

Which of the following was a way to limit the right to vote by paying prior to casting one's ballot?

a)

Grandfather Clause

b)

Poll Tax

c)

Literacy Test

6.

What does impeachment mean?

a)

removal from office

b)

conviction of a crime

c)

formal accusation of wrongdoing

7.

Why was the Freedman's Bureau established?

a)

shortages of funds and personnel

b)

to help former slaves and poor whites after the civil war

c)

to allow freedmen to borrow land in exchange for rent

8.

What were Jim Crow Laws?

a)

laws that aided in the education of African Americans

b)

laws of segregation against African Americans

c)

laws that helped African Americans get better jobs

d)

laws that helped African Americans vote

9.

Who was President during the beginning of the Reconstruction Era?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

d)

Rutherford B. Hayes

10.

Which term refers to the separation, typically based on skin color?

a)

Migration

b)

Integration

c)

Segregation

d)

Competition

11.

Democrats, who began to roll back Radical Republican laws in the south were called ___________.

a)

Federalists

b)

Know-Nothings

c)

Copperheads

d)

"Redeemers"

12.
Which is the best description of Reconstruction?
a)
rebuilding the US after a big earthquake
b)

a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War

c)

a period of rebuilding in the South after the Civil War

d)
unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War
13.

__________________________________________ took over Reconstruction after Lincoln’s death and sought to punish the South for the Civil War.

a)

Radical Republicans

b)

Black codes

c)

Peace Democrats

d)

Redeemers