WorksheetsSW Week 20 Test Westward Expansion- Reconstruction
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 30mins
Article 1: Reconstruction of Government, Economics, and Society
What did Andrew Johnson lead the nation to do when he was president?
Article 2: Free Citizens Vote
Which amendment abolished slavery forever in the United States?
Article 2
Which amendment gave citizenship to all formerly enslaved people?
Article 2:
Which amendment gave voting rights to newly emancipated men?
Article 3: New Members of Congress
In 1868, what state had a majority of African Americans as members of state government?
Article 3:
In 1870, which man became the first African American in the U.S. Senate?
Article 4: The Life of America’s Newest Citizens
What were northern businesspeople who came to the South known as?
Article 4:
What is the term when someone lives and farms a plot of land and pays the rent with a part of the harvest?
sharecropper
Article 5: Freedmen’s Bureau
What did the Freedmen’s Bureau establish?
schools and hospitals
Article 6: Impeachment Procedures
The U.S. Constitution provides a way to investigate misdoings by members of government. What is this called?
Article 6:
Where must all articles of impeachment begin?
Article 6:
What majority of the Senate must agree to convict and remove a person from public office?
Article 7: The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
What event triggered the impeachment of Andrew Johnson?
He fired the Secretary of War
Article 7:
Andrew Johnson received 11 articles of impeachment from the ___________.
Article 7:
The vote to remove President Andrew Johnson from office failed by how many votes?
