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Reconstruction, 1865-1876

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Slavery ended in Texas on Juneteenth when ____________ proclaimed the Emancipation Proclamation following the Union occupation of Galveston.

a)

General Gordon Granter

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

General Sam Houston

d)

Mifflin Kennedy

2.

The Texas legislature passed _____________, a series of restrictions that denied equality to African Americans.

a)

Civil Rights laws

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Black Codes

d)

Race Codes

3.

Texas and Louisiana were reorganized by the Reconstruction Act of 1867 into ____________.

a)

the First Military District

b)

the Third Military District

c)

the Twelfth Military District

d)

the Fifth Military District

4.

The restoration of white supremacy and end of federal, military control in Texas is known as ____________.

a)

Gods Will

b)

Redemption

c)

Salvation

d)

Reclamation

5.

Most freedmen and women left slavery and entered the landless class of agricultural workers who exchange their labor for residency on farms owned by whites as ___________.

a)

sharecroppers

b)

carpet baggers

c)

Free booters

d)

Rapscallion

6.

Slavery officially ended in Texas on ___________________.

a)

January 1, 1863

b)

June 19, 1865

c)

July 4, 1876

d)

May 4, 1862

7.

Texas rejoined the Union in__________________.

a)

1876

b)

1865

c)

1870

d)

1845

8.

Appointed by President Anderw Johnson, ______________________ served as the head of Texas Government from 1865-1866.

a)

James Joyce Johnson

b)

Adam Jefferson Franklin

c)

Alexander Jackson Hamilton

d)

Madison, Monroe, Adams

9.

Congressional reconstruction lasts from ____________.

a)

1865-66

b)

1867-70

c)

1866-72

d)

1865-69

10.

_______________ was Elected sheriff, Republican party convention delegate, and state legislator from Fort Bend County. Senator Burton served on the legislative committee which established the University of Texas in 1881.

a)

James W Throckmorton

b)

Richard Coke

c)

Bass Reeves

d)

Walter Moses Burton