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Reconstruction Unit

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

During the Reconstruction Era from 1865 to 1877...

a)

former Union states were readmitted back into the Union after the Civil War.

b)

former Confederate states were readmitted back into the Union after the Civil War.

c)

former northern states were readmitted back into the Confederacy after the Civil War.

d)

former free states were readmitted back into the Confederacy after the Civil War

2.

This amendment abolishes slavery in the United States and its territories.

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

3.

To challenge the Black Codes, Congress passed the...

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1865

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1867

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1868

4.

Collectively, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments guarantee equal protection under the law.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

16th

6.

President Andrew Johnson fought with the Radical Republicans over this law, causing him to eventually be impeached

a)

The Compromise of 1877

b)

The compromise of 1879

c)

The Civil Rights Act of 1865

d)

The Civil Rights Act of 1866

7.

Identify all of the events that were related to Compromise of 1877.

a)

resulted in the election of Rutherford B. Hayes

b)

Jim Crow laws became prevalent in the South

c)

It ended Reconstruction

d)

Federal troops were removed from the South

e)

resulted in the election of Samuel J. Tilden

8.

This group opposed African Americans' right to vote and terrorized them and others who supported them.

a)

Radical Republicans

b)

northern Democrats

c)

The Freedmenś Bureau

d)

Ku Klux Klan

9.

The Black Codes...

a)

restricted the economic and physical freedom of Americans

b)

restricted the economic and physical freedom of Radical Republicans

c)

restricted the economic and physical freedom of southern democrats

d)

restricted the economic and physical freedom of African Americans

10.

The ____________________ wanted a harsher punishment for the Southern States before they were to be rejoined with the Union

a)

Sons of Liberty

b)

Radical Republicans

c)

Ku Klux Klan

11.

The Southern States refusing to ratify the 14th Amendment and the rise of the KKK lead to Southern States being...

a)

placed into military districts governed by an army general.

b)

sold to the Spain for the refusing to compromise.

c)

kicked out of the Union and never allowed to join again.

12.

Which group was created to help freed slaves adjust to their new life of freedom by building schools, providing food/shelter, and helping the former slaves find lost family members?

a)

The Freed Salve Agency

b)

Freedman's Bureau

c)

Liberty Boys

13.

(a)   is a name for the individuals freed from slavery.

14.

This was the formal end of the Reconstruction period and pulled the last troops out of the South.

a)

Command of the Army Act

b)

The Panic of 1873

c)

Tenure of Office Act

d)

Compromise of 1877

15.
Northerners who migrated to the mostly destroyed post-war south to make large profits and/or help freedmen were known as
a)
Scalawags
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
Carpetbaggers
d)
Sharecroppers
16.

A tax used to keep black and poor whites from voting

a)

Literacy Test

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

14th Amendment

d)

Poll tax

17.

A test given before poor whites and freedmen could vote in the United States

a)

Poll Tax

b)

Literacy test

c)

Black codes

d)

Jim Crow Laws

18.

What effects did the Sharecropping System have?

a)

left former slaves with a cycle of debt

b)

left former slaves with a surplus in crops

c)

left the landowner with no crops

d)

left the landowner owing more to the former slaves

19.
The years after the Civil War were called the time of ______________.
a)
Rejoining
b)
Reconstruction
c)
rejoined
d)
Rebuilding
20.

Number only. Which amendment led to this?

(a)  

21.

After Reconstruction, the system of segregation was supported by _________.

a)

Immigration Laws

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Black Codes

d)

Civil Rights Laws