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Reconstruction Review

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.


During Reconstruction, which president wanted to heal the nation and integrate African Americans into a free society?

a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Andrew Johnson
c)
Ulysses S. Grant
d)
Rutherford B. Hayes
2.

Which president beat Samuel Tilden in a controversial and super close election which ended Reconstruction?


a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
George Washington
c)
Rutherford B. Hayes
d)
Thomas Jefferson
3.

Which president served during the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction?

a)
George Washington
b)
Thomas Jefferson
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
John F. Kennedy
4.

Which president favored general amnesty to all Southerners except for wealthy plantation owners and Confederate leaders?

a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Andrew Johnson
c)
George Washington
d)
Thomas Jefferson
5.

Who was a former Union general who became president and favored Radical Reconstruction?

a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
George Washington
d)
Ulysses S. Grant
6.

What gave African American men the right to vote?

a)

The 13th Amendment

b)
The Emancipation Proclamation
c)
The 15th Amendment
d)
The 14th Amendment
7.

What gave citizenship to everyone born in the US is a citizen?

a)
14th Amendment
b)
Declaration of Independence
c)

13th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

8.

What law ended slavery?


a)

The 15th Amendment

b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)

The 13th Amendment

d)

The 14th Amendment

9.

What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

a)
To provide financial support to former slave owners
b)
To establish a new system of labor for former slaves
c)

To assist former slaves in the South by providing food, housing, and medical aid

d)
To enforce segregation laws in the South
10.

An unfair labor system where owners controlled the rules and changed them whenever they wanted to take advantage of their Black partners is called...

a)
Capitalism
b)
Sharecropping
c)
Slavery
11.

What was the outcome of the case "Plessy v. Ferguson"?

a)
Plessy won the case
b)
Ferguson won the case
c)
The case was dismissed
d)

Segregation was legal

12.

Which of the following was NOT used to prevent African Americans from voting in the South?

a)
Literacy tests
b)
Poll taxes
c)
Grandfather clauses
d)

The Freedman's Bureau

13.

People from the North who moved to the South after the Civil War to make money were called...

a)
Carpetbaggers
b)
Scalawags
c)
Reconstructionists
d)
Abolitionists
14.


What was a result of the disputed election of 1876?

a)
The establishment of the Federal Reserve
b)

The end of Reconstruction as federal troops were removed from the south

c)
The start of the Civil War
d)
The signing of the Declaration of Independence
15.

Who graduated Harvard and began the NAACP?

a)
Martin Luther King Jr.
b)
W.E.B. Du Bois
c)

Hiram Revels

d)

Booker T. Washington

16.

Who was the first African American senator?

a)
Barack Obama
b)

Ida B. Wells

c)
Malcolm X
d)

Hiram Revels

17.

Who created the Tuskegee Institute to give Black Americans vocational training?

a)
Martin Luther King Jr.
b)
Malcolm X
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Booker T. Washington
18.

Who was the Black man arrested for riding in a "whites only" train car?

a)

Homer Plessy

b)

Rutherford B. Hayes

c)

Hiram Revels

d)
Rosa Parks
19.

Who was an activist who brought attention to racism by publishing articles about lynchings in the South and advocated for women's rights?

a)
Ida B. Wells
b)
Martin Luther King Jr.
c)

Homer Plessy

d)

Abraham Lincoln

20.

Which of the following was an effect of the Grandfather Clause?

a)
It allowed all men to vote regardless of race or class
b)
It increased the number of African American voters
c)

It prevented African Americans from voting since their grandfathers could not vote

d)
It abolished slavery
21.

After the adoption of Reconstruction laws, former Confederate states could not be admitted back into the US until they adopted the...

a)
Declaration of Independence
b)

15th Amendment

c)

14th Amendment

d)
Emancipation Proclamation
22.

Which president beat Samuel Tilden in a controversial and super close election which ended Reconstruction?

a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)

Andrew Johnson

c)
Rutherford B. Hayes
d)
Thomas Jefferson
23.

The Reconstruction Amendments were limited by...

a)
The Emancipation Proclamation
b)
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
c)
The Jim Crow laws
d)
The 13th Amendment
24.

Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction were called...

a)
Carpetbaggers
b)
Scalawags
c)
Freedmen
d)
Sharecroppers
25.

Southerners who supported the US government and not the Confederacy were called...

a)

Abolitionists

b)
Scalawags
c)
Carpetbaggers
26.

Jim Crow laws targeted...

a)

Japanese Americans

b)

White Women

c)

Native Americans

d)

African Americans

27.

Which person accepted social separation and believed racial equality could be achieved through vocational education?

a)

Hiram Revels

b)

WEB DuBois

c)
Booker T. Washington
d)

Thomas Jefferson

28.

What year did Reconstruction end?

a)

1865

b)

1877

c)

1896

d)

1900