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WorksheetsReconstruction, War, and Reform in Tennessee
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 32mins
Who was the 16th president of the United States, and president during the Civil War?
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
George W. Bush
Donald Trump
What did the 13th Amendment, passed during Reconstruction, say?
Slavery was illegal/not allowed.
All people are citizens of the United States
All men in the United States can vote.
The (a) Era refers to the period after the Civil War, especially in the (b) .
The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau was to
provide 40 acres and a mule for each slave.
gain the vote for millions of former slaves.
provide work, education, and relief for former slaves.
get radical Republicans in positions of power in the South.
The period of rebuilding of The South after The Civil War was known as
The Renaissance
Reconstruction
The Guilded Age
The Industrial Revolution
What was the purpose of Jim Crow laws.
to segregate white and black Americans
to ban slavery
to ban poll taxes
to allow African American men to vote.
What was most likely the greatest problem facing the South after the Civil War?
Most people who lived in the South wanted to move to the North, but they did not have the money to do so.
Most Southerners still refused to release their slaves.
The South was devastated, and the people struggled to deal with the destruction of lives and property.
Most Northerner congressmen and senators did not want the South back in the Union.
WEB DuBois
founded the NAACP
worked in a salt mine at age 9
was born in Tennessee
taught job skills to African-Americans
Who was the Tennessee Representative that cast a vote to break a tie for the women's suffrage amendment?
Booker T. Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
W.E.B Dubois
Harry Burn
Why did Harry Burn decide to vote yes for women's suffrage?
He was paid to vote yes
He was threatened to be killed if he didn't
His mom told him to
He wanted women to be allowed to vote
Why was John Scopes put on trial?
Rejecting religion completely
Teaching evolutionary theory
Teaching about God
The National Park that encompasses parts of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina is called what?
Shenandoah
The Cumberland Gap
The Great Smoky Mountains
The Blue Ridge Mountains
The longest live broadcasting radio program in the world is hosted in Nashville, TN and is called what?
The Great Old Opry
The Country Jubilee
Live From Broadway
The Grand Ole Opry
The TVA provided ________ for rural citizens.
Electricity
new farm land
new homes
New Deal support
This man changes the way people shopped for their groceries in the 1920's
W.C. Handy
Henry Ford
Charles Lindbergh
Clarence Saunders
Oak Ridge had 3 large _____________where employees worked on making nuclear materials for the atomic bomb.
factories
schools
plants
industrial war goods facilities
Today, Oak Ridge is still considered to be the largest hi-tech nuclear research and testing facility in the United States.
True
False
Where did B.B. King hitchhike to to begin his blues career?
Nashville
Memphis
Knoxville
Clarksville
What is the name of Elvis Presley's estate?
Church Street
Graceland
Blue Suede Shoes
The Old Daisy
Which body of water helped to spread different music styles to Memphis?
Mississippi River
Minnesota River
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
