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Reconstruction

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following was NOT one of the Main concerns following the Civil War:

a)

Rebuilding the Southern Economy

b)

Reuniting the Union

c)

Reestablishing Trade Relations with Great Britain

d)

Extending Citizenship to African Americans

2.

Match the following Amendments:

a)

13th Amendment

1.

End Slavery

b)

14th Amendment

2.

Extending citizenship to all

c)

15th Amendment

3.

Voting Rights for all men

3.

Believed that African Americans should “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” in order to earn their place in society and establish themselves as hardworking and honest citizens:

a)

Rutherford B Hayes

b)

Booker T Washington

c)

Ida B Wells

d)

WEB DuBois

4.

All of the following EXCEPT _________ was used by the south to prevent African Americans from voting:

a)

Poll Taxes

b)

Civil Rights Acts

c)

Literacy Test

d)

Grandfather Clause

5.

Southern governments enacted various measures aimed at disenfranchising or taking away the voting rights of African Americans. Not until the mid-twentieth century would these laws be overturned in both state and federal courts.

a)

Segregation

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1875

d)

Compromise of 1877

6.

Southern governments enacted various measures aimed at disenfranchising or taking away the voting rights of African Americans. Not until the mid-twentieth century would these laws be overturned in both state and federal courts.

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1875

c)

Enforcement Acts

d)

Ku Klux Klan

7.

This guaranteed African American citizens the right to ride trains and use public facilities such as hotels. Yet was left to the courts to interpret how the law would be applied:

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Black Codes

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1875

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

8.

White men who had been locked out of pre-Civil War politics by their wealthier neighbors and were welcomed in by the Republican Party.

a)

Scalawags

b)

Carpetbaggers

c)

Ku Klux Klan

d)

Black Codes

9.

People from the north who were seen as opportunists by southern white people because they came to make their fortunes from the South’s misfortunes.

a)

Jim Crow

b)

Carpetbaggers

c)

Scalawags

d)

Tenant Farmers

10.

Formed in Tennessee in 1866, this was established to enforce violence against symbols of African American freedoms, especially education, religion and politics.

a)

Compromise of 1866

b)

Enforcement Acts

c)

Grandfather Clause

d)

Ku Klux Klan

11.

Which Reconstruction Plan allowed southern states to rejoin the Union as long as 10% of voters swore a loyalty oath?

a)

Lincoln's Plan

b)

Andrew Johnson's Plan

c)

Rutherford B Hayes

d)

Radical Republicans

12.

Which Reconstruction Plan was the strictest for southerners to rejoin the Union?

a)

Andrew Johnson's Plan

b)

Radical Republicans

c)

Jim Crow

d)

Lincoln's 10% Plan

13.

The plan by Radical Republicans to educate, feed, clothe and provide healthcare to freed African Americans and poor white southerners:

a)

Grandfather Clause

b)

Black Codes

c)

Freedman's Bureau

d)

Jim Crow Laws

14.

A forced separation by race:

a)

Segregation

b)

Ku Klux Klan

c)

Integration

d)

Jim Crow

15.

Laws passed in 1870 and 1871 making it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen’s right to vote:

a)

Enforcement Acts

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

c)

Ku Klux Klan

d)

Segregation

16.

A system where a tenant farmer gives a share of crops each planting season for renting the land.

a)

Slavery

b)

Tenant Farming

c)

Share Tenancy

d)

Sharecropping

17.

Politicians who aimed to repair the South in the eyes of Congress:

a)

Carpetbaggers

b)

Scalawags

c)

Redeemers

d)

Ku Klux Klan

18.

This guaranteed African American citizens the right to ride trains and use public facilities such as hotels. Yet was left to the courts to interpret how the law would be applied:

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1875

b)

Enforcement Acts

c)

Grandfather Clause

d)

Literacy Test

19.

Wrote numerous articles that condemned the mistreatment of African Americans and wrote pamphlets describing the “southern horrors of legalized murder”.

a)

WEB DuBois

b)

Booker T Washington

c)

Rutherford B Hayes

d)

Ida B Wells

20.

Believed that African Americans should demand full and immediate equality and they should not be limited to vocational education (skills).

a)

WEB DuBois

b)

Booker T Washington

c)

Rutherford B Hayes

d)

Ida B Wells