WorksheetsAmerican History: Reconstruction Quiz
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 13mins
What were the four key questions that needed to be addressed in Reconstruction?
How to bring the North back into the Union?
How to rebuild the North after its destruction during the war?
How to integrate and protect newly-emancipated black freedmen?
What branch of government should control the process of Reconstruction?
What was Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction called?
The 10% Plan
The Wade-Davis Plan
The Freedmen's Bureau Act
The Black Codes
Who proposed the Wade-Davis Plan?
Benjamin Wade
Henry Davis
Andrew Johnson
Thaddeus Stevens
What did the Wade-Davis Plan propose?
Rebuilding the South as soon as possible
Requiring 10% of the state's population to take an oath of allegiance
Banning former Confederate officers from public office
Providing education for the freedmen
What was Lincoln's response to the Wade-Davis Plan?
He rejected it
He signed it
He used a pocket veto
He overruled Congress
What was the goal of the Freedmen's Bureau?
To protect the legal rights of the freedmen
To rebuild the South after the war
To provide food, shelter, and clothing to the freedmen
To ban former Confederate officers from public office
Which amendment ended slavery?
13th amendment
14th amendment
15th amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
Who became President after Lincoln's assassination?
Benjamin Wade
Henry Davis
Andrew Johnson
Thaddeus Stevens
What were the Black Codes?
Laws that protected the legal rights of the freedmen
Laws that banned former Confederate officers from public office
Laws that discriminated against African-Americans
Laws that provided education for the freedmen
What was the new form of enslavement called?
Sharecropping
Carpetbagging
Scalawagging
Ku Klux Klan
Reconstruction is the...
(a)
Well before the Civil War came to an end, Lincoln started (a)
Those in Congress, nicknamed the (a)
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that protected the legal rights of African-Americans
Laws that banned former Confederate officers from public office
Laws that discriminated against African-Americans
Laws that provided education for African-Americans
Who was the first African-American to serve in the United States Senate?
Frederick Douglass
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Du Bois
What was the purpose of the Ku Klux Klan?
To protect the legal rights of African-Americans
To rebuild the South after the war
To provide food, shelter, and clothing to African-Americans
To intimidate and oppress African-Americans
Which Supreme Court case established the separate but equal doctrine?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Marbury v. Madison
What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
To protect the legal rights of African-Americans
To rebuild the South after the war
To provide food, shelter, and clothing to African-Americans
To ban former Confederate officers from public office
What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
To end slavery in the United States
To grant voting rights to African-Americans
To rebuild the South after the war
To provide education for African-Americans
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
What was the purpose of the 14th amendment?
To grant voting rights to African-Americans
To end slavery in the United States
To protect the legal rights of African-Americans
To rebuild the South after the war
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F. Kennedy
James Earl Ray
What was the purpose of the 15th amendment?
To grant voting rights to African-Americans
To end slavery in the United States
To protect the legal rights of African-Americans
To rebuild the South after the war
