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WorksheetsReconstruction Era
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Match the following vocabulary words
Freedman's Bureau
Laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in former Confederate states to limit rights of African Americans
Reconstruction
Laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War
Civil Rights
The rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people, especially equal treatment under law
Jim Crow Laws
An agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect black Americans
Black Codes
The period after the Civil War in which Southern States rebuilt.
This amendment, ratified in 1870, declared that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color
13th
15th
21st
14th
This amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery
15th
14th
13th
12th
What was the purpose of the 13th amendment?
to abolish slavery
to provide citizenship to former enslaved people
to allow freedman to run for office
to legislate fair treatment for all citizens
As a result of the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867, which of these made up the largest group of NEW Southern voters?
Northerners who moved to the South
former Confederate soldiers
African Americans
white Southern Democrats
What did Congress hope the Enforcement Acts would prevent?
to integrate Southern schools
to end government corruption
to protect the voting rights of Southerners
to return White Democrats to power
All of these were included in President Johnson's Reconstruction plan except
cancellation of war debts
new state constitutions for Confederate states
ratification of the 13th amendment
guarantee of voting rights for freedmen
What was an effect of the Southern poll tax law?
African Americans were denied voting rights
Money was raised to fund public education
Public funding of small business increased
Southern Democrats were voted out of office
How did African Americans who remained in the South improve their lives?
They conducted violent protests to obtain rights
they worked together to build communities
they received money from relatives in the North
They depended upon government welfare
The Military Reconstruction Act was enacted in response to the actions of which president?
Lincoln
Grant
Johnson
Hayes
