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Reconstruction

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This amendment abolished slavery

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

2.

This amendment stated anyone born in the United States is a citizen with equal rights.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

3.

This amendment gave African American men the right to vote

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

4.

This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...

a)

establish churches to provide aid in the Southern states.

b)

reunify the former Confederate States and to craft a plan to readmit them to the Union.

c)

establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.

d)

abolish former Confederate governments and to punish former Confederate leaders.

5.

Which of the following were challenges experienced by African Americans following the Civil War? (SELECT ALL THAT ARE CORRECT)

a)

Racial terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan

b)

Lack of a formal education or employment opportunities

c)

Limitations of 13th Amendment freedoms through Black Codes

d)

Enjoyment of civil rights and the ability to participate in the government through voting

6.

Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?

a)

African American families divided by slavery were reunited

b)

Newly free men and women moved west to claim land

c)

African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election

d)

Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship

7.

What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

a)

Agricultural workers organized labor unions

b)

Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt

c)

Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses

d)

Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves

8.

The abolitionist movement achieved its goal with the passage of which amendment?

a)

Twelfth Amendment

b)

Thirteenth Amendment

c)

Fourteenth Amendment

d)

Fifteenth Amendment

9.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by -

a)

Providing them with voting rights

b)

Guaranteeing their freedom of speech

c)

Providing them with access to the court system

d)

Guaranteeing their permanent freedom from slavery

10.

"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 -

a)

limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments

b)

Increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North

c)

decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress

d)

improve relations with the Democratic Party

11.

Poll Taxes

Literacy Tests

Grandfather Clauses


The measures in this list are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the -

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Fifteenth Amendment

c)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

d)

Dred Scott v. Sandford decision

12.

Freedmen's Bureau:

  • Provided food, shelter, and clothing
  • Negotiated and enforced labor contracts
  • ___________________


Which of the following best completes this list?

a)

Established schools for African Americans

b)

Certified applications for political office

c)

Granted small-business loans

d)

Provided funds for farming supplies

13.

What was a primary goal of the Reconstruction Amendments?

a)

To expand the territory of the United States

b)

To integrate Southern states back into the Union

c)

To establish a national bank

d)

To promote industrialization in the North

14.

Which of the following best describes the impact of the Fourteenth Amendment?

a)

It abolished slavery in the United States

b)

It granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S.

c)

It allowed women the right to vote

d)

It established the federal income tax

15.

How did the Fifteenth Amendment affect African American men?

a)

It guaranteed them the right to own property

b)

It allowed them to serve in the military

c)

It granted them the right to vote

d)

It provided them with free education

16.

What was the primary purpose of the Jim Crow laws enacted in the southern United States?

a)

To promote industrial growth in the South

b)

To enforce racial segregation and disenfranchise African Americans

c)

To provide educational opportunities for all citizens

d)

To encourage migration to the northern states

17.

Which of the following best describes the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation?

a)

It immediately freed all slaves in the United States

b)

It declared the freedom of slaves in Confederate states

c)

It granted voting rights to African American men

d)

It established the Freedmen's Bureau

18.
What did the “grandfather clause” do?
a)
allowed voting if their grandfathers had been able to vote in 1860
b)
allowed people to vote if they owned land in 1860
c)
allowed voting if your ancestors were Irish
d)
allowed voting based on socio-economic factors
19.
What was the ruling in Plessy v Ferguson?
a)
that people could travel to Cuba
b)
that railroads were being replaced
c)
that “separate-but-equal” was illegal
d)
that “separate-but-equal” was legal
20.
1896 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
a)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
b)
24th Amendment
c)
Montgomery Boycott
d)
Plessy v. Ferguson