WorksheetsICT Class 831 Unit Test on Reconstruction
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 27mins
Why were the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments added to the Constitution during Reconstruction?
To give civil rights to African Americans
Why did the Southern states pass laws that established literacy tests, poll taxes, and black codes?
What did the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution accomplish?
It banned slavery.
It gave citizens the right to vote.
It gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
What did the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution accomplish?
It banned slavery.
It gave all citizens the right to vote.
It gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
What did the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution accomplish?
It banned slavery.
It gave all citizens the right to vote.
It gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
Which of the following were NOT actions of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
What was the main purpose of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction?
To ensure that freedmen would not have equal rights.
To ensure that freedmen had their equal rights protected.
To ensure that the Reconstruction Amendments were followed.
In what year did Reconstruction officially end?
Which is true about sharecropping?
The following image is called "The First Vote." Which historical understanding would this document support?
This organization was set up by the federal government; it gave food, clothing, medicine, and other needed supplies to freed slaves.
Ku Klux Klan
Freedmen's Bureau
Emancipation Proclamation
A plan which stated that a southern state could be readmitted to the Union once 10 percent of its voters pledged allegiance to the Union.
Lincoln's Plan (Ten Percent Plan)
Andrew Johnson's Plan (Presidential Reconstruction)
Radical Republicans' Plan (Congressional Reconstruction)
A test to prove you could read or write in order to vote; used to keep African Americans from voting
Literacy Tests
Poll Taxes
Sharecropping
A derogatory term applied to any person from the North who came to the South after the Civil War; they were viewed as taking advantage of the South
Freedman
Scalawag
Carpetbagger
Considered a slur; referred to white southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the end of the Civil War
Freedman
Scalawag
Carpetbagger
Which of the following was NOT a secret society started by a group of Confederates who wanted to limit the rights of freedmen and used intimidation and physical violence
Freedmen's Bureau
White League
Ku Klux Klan
Who were the Radical Republicans?
People who describe themselves as NOT extreme in their political beliefs
Group of representatives that were very extreme with their views; believed the government should be tough on the South for leaving the Union
Southerners who wanted the northerners to leave the South and allow southern states to rule themselves
After the Civil War, the South faced the task of repairing tremendous ________________.
growth
destruction
freedom
Presidents Lincoln and Johnson recommended __________________ plans for Reconstruction, but Congress refused to accept either one.
mild
harsh
tough
