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Reconstruction Quiz

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name

Class

Date

Georgia refused to ratify the 14th amendment. What happened?

Nothing

GA placed under military rule

Georgia residents were told to turn in their weapons.

This Reconstruction plan said a state could rejoin if 10% of its population swore an oath of loyalty

Lincoln's Plan

Johnson's Plan

Radical Republican's Plan

Grant's Plan

Groups like the Ku Klux Klan that formed during Reconstruction helped freed slaves and worked to protect their rights.

True

False

After the Civil War, what lifestyle did many poor whites and freed slaves adopt?

enrolled in college

became factory workers

began sharecropping and tenant farming

became cowboys

_________________________ owned animals and equipment, but not land.

Sharecroppers

Tenant Farming

Freedmen

Scalawags

Which amendment gave freed slaves U.S. Citizenship rights?

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

16th Amendment

He was elected to the House of Representatives, but was expelled because he was black?

Henry McNeal Turner

Stephen Douglas

Henry Clay

Austin Dabney

The members of Congress battled with both presidents because they felt that the Presidential Reconstruction Plans:

were too focused on helping the freed African slaves, but not on helping the poor, white farmers.

were too strict to allow the Union to ever be reunited as it was prior to the Civil War.

were too lenient on the Southern states that had rebelled against the Union.

were created too quickly without consulting the former leaders of the Confederate states.

The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

Gave African Americans the right to own businesses

Freed the Slaves

Gave African Americans the right to vote

Forced African Americans back into slavery

10.

The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was known as

A. New South

B. Reconstruction

C. Atlanta Compromise

D. Georgia Platform

11.

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution ______________________.

Free Speech

Abolished Slavery

Voting rights

Ended the Civil War

12.

Who favored harsher punishment on the Reconstruction plans?

Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Johnson

Congressional Republicans

Confederate leaders

13.

Which statement describes the attitude of the Ku Klux Klan?

The KKK supported the ideas of Congressional Reconstruction.

The KKK supported Black American politicians.

The KKK used violence to terrorize Blacks from voting.

The KKK agreed with Radical Republicans.

14.

A person who did not own land, tools or anything else but offered his labor to work the land is:

A tenant farmer

A Sharecropper

A Successful Farmer.

An owner of land.

15.

According to the Georgia Constitution, Southern Democrats expelled Blacks from the Georgia legislature because:

They did not have the right to hold office.

They did not have the right to vote.

They sided with the Southern Democrats

They owned too much land.

16.

What agency help former slaves with food, clothing, jobs, school and hospitals?

Freed Slave Alliance

Freed People's Agency

Freedmen's Bureau

Abraham's Friends

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Reconstruction Quiz

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 10mins

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