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American History: Reconstruction Quiz

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were the four key questions that needed to be addressed in Reconstruction?

a)

How to bring the North back into the Union?

b)

How to rebuild the North after its destruction during the war?

c)

How to integrate and protect newly-emancipated black freedmen?

d)

What branch of government should control the process of Reconstruction?

2.

What was Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction called?

a)

The 10% Plan

b)

The Wade-Davis Plan

c)

The Freedmen's Bureau Act

d)

The Black Codes

3.

Who proposed the Wade-Davis Plan?

a)

Benjamin Wade

b)

Henry Davis

c)

Andrew Johnson

d)

Thaddeus Stevens

4.

What did the Wade-Davis Plan propose?

a)

Rebuilding the South as soon as possible

b)

Requiring 10% of the state's population to take an oath of allegiance

c)

Banning former Confederate officers from public office

d)

Providing education for the freedmen

5.

What was Lincoln's response to the Wade-Davis Plan?

a)

He rejected it

b)

He signed it

c)

He used a pocket veto

d)

He overruled Congress

6.

What was the goal of the Freedmen's Bureau?

a)

To protect the legal rights of the freedmen

b)

To rebuild the South after the war

c)

To provide food, shelter, and clothing to the freedmen

d)

To ban former Confederate officers from public office

7.

Which amendment ended slavery?

a)

13th amendment

b)

14th amendment

c)

15th amendment

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

8.

Who became President after Lincoln's assassination?

a)

Benjamin Wade

b)

Henry Davis

c)

Andrew Johnson

d)

Thaddeus Stevens

9.

What were the Black Codes?

a)

Laws that protected the legal rights of the freedmen

b)

Laws that banned former Confederate officers from public office

c)

Laws that discriminated against African-Americans

d)

Laws that provided education for the freedmen

10.

What was the new form of enslavement called?

a)

Sharecropping

b)

Carpetbagging

c)

Scalawagging

d)

Ku Klux Klan

11.

Reconstruction is the...

(a)  

12.

Well before the Civil War came to an end, Lincoln started (a)  

13.

Those in Congress, nicknamed the (a)  

14.

What were the Jim Crow Laws?

a)

Laws that protected the legal rights of African-Americans

b)

Laws that banned former Confederate officers from public office

c)

Laws that discriminated against African-Americans

d)

Laws that provided education for African-Americans

15.

Who was the first African-American to serve in the United States Senate?

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Hiram Rhodes Revels

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

W. E. B. Du Bois

16.

What was the purpose of the Ku Klux Klan?

a)

To protect the legal rights of African-Americans

b)

To rebuild the South after the war

c)

To provide food, shelter, and clothing to African-Americans

d)

To intimidate and oppress African-Americans

17.

Which Supreme Court case established the separate but equal doctrine?

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Dred Scott v. Sandford

d)

Marbury v. Madison

18.

What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

a)

To protect the legal rights of African-Americans

b)

To rebuild the South after the war

c)

To provide food, shelter, and clothing to African-Americans

d)

To ban former Confederate officers from public office

19.

What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?

a)

To end slavery in the United States

b)

To grant voting rights to African-Americans

c)

To rebuild the South after the war

d)

To provide education for African-Americans

20.

Who was the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War?

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

d)

Abraham Lincoln

21.

What was the purpose of the 14th amendment?

a)

To grant voting rights to African-Americans

b)

To end slavery in the United States

c)

To protect the legal rights of African-Americans

d)

To rebuild the South after the war

22.

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

a)

John Wilkes Booth

b)

Lee Harvey Oswald

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

James Earl Ray

23.

What was the purpose of the 15th amendment?

a)

To grant voting rights to African-Americans

b)

To end slavery in the United States

c)

To protect the legal rights of African-Americans

d)

To rebuild the South after the war