WorksheetsReconstruction
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 24mins
This amendment abolished slavery
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
This amendment stated anyone born in the United States is a citizen with equal rights.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...
establish churches to provide aid in the Southern states.
reunify the former Confederate States and to craft a plan to readmit them to the Union.
establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.
abolish former Confederate governments and to punish former Confederate leaders.
Which of the following were challenges experienced by African Americans following the Civil War? (SELECT ALL THAT ARE CORRECT)
Racial terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan
Lack of a formal education or employment opportunities
Limitations of 13th Amendment freedoms through Black Codes
Enjoyment of civil rights and the ability to participate in the government through voting
Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?
African American families divided by slavery were reunited
Newly free men and women moved west to claim land
African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election
Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship
What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?
Agricultural workers organized labor unions
Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt
Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses
Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves
The abolitionist movement achieved its goal with the passage of which amendment?
Twelfth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by -
Providing them with voting rights
Guaranteeing their freedom of speech
Providing them with access to the court system
Guaranteeing their permanent freedom from slavery
"Black Codes was a name given to laws passed by southern governments established during the presidency of Andrew Johnson. These laws imposed severe restrictions on freedmen, such as prohibiting the right to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, and limiting their right to testify against white men. They were also forbidden from carrying weapons and working in certain occupations."
Southern states passed the codes described in this excerpt in order to -
limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments
Increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North
decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress
improve relations with the Democratic Party
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
Grandfather Clauses
The measures in this list are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the -
Compromise of 1850
Fifteenth Amendment
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Dred Scott v. Sandford decision
Freedmen's Bureau:
- Provided food, shelter, and clothing
- Negotiated and enforced labor contracts
- ___________________
Which of the following best completes this list?
Established schools for African Americans
Certified applications for political office
Granted small-business loans
Provided funds for farming supplies
What was a primary goal of the Reconstruction Amendments?
To expand the territory of the United States
To integrate Southern states back into the Union
To establish a national bank
To promote industrialization in the North
Which of the following best describes the impact of the Fourteenth Amendment?
It abolished slavery in the United States
It granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S.
It allowed women the right to vote
It established the federal income tax
How did the Fifteenth Amendment affect African American men?
It guaranteed them the right to own property
It allowed them to serve in the military
It granted them the right to vote
It provided them with free education
What was the primary purpose of the Jim Crow laws enacted in the southern United States?
To promote industrial growth in the South
To enforce racial segregation and disenfranchise African Americans
To provide educational opportunities for all citizens
To encourage migration to the northern states
Which of the following best describes the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation?
It immediately freed all slaves in the United States
It declared the freedom of slaves in Confederate states
It granted voting rights to African American men
It established the Freedmen's Bureau
