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VS Unit 8 - Reconstruction

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The time period immediately following the United States

Civil War is known as the (a)   .

Choose from the below words
Reconstruction Era
Union Reconstruction
Post Civil War
The Confederacy
2.

The (a)   provided food, clothing, medicine, and other necessary supplies to freed enslaved people.

Choose from the below words
Freedom's Bureau
The Reconstruction Bureau
Freedmen's Bureau
Sharecropping
3.

Landowners gave a portion of their farming land in (a)   for a​ (b)   of the crops grown by sharecropping.

Choose from the below words

mixed farming

exchange
share
payment
4.

​ (a)   : Unjust treatment of others because of who they are,

what they look like, where they come from, or what they believe.

Choose from the below words
Equality
Misunderstanding
Discrimination
Unity
5.

​ (a)   laws were unjust rules that separated people in public places based on (b)   .

Choose from the below words
Segregation
Jim Crow
skin color
Reconstruction
enslaved
injustice
sharecropping
6.

The (a)   Amendment to the US Constitution grants citizenship

to all people born in the United States.

Choose from the below words

15th

16th

19th

14th
7.

The (a)   Amendment gave African American men the right to vote; making it illegal to deny them the opportunity to vote.

Choose from the below words

14th

16th

13th

15th
8.

Which symbol represents the biggest influence on towns and industries after the Civil War and Reconstruction?

a)

b)

c)

9.

The picture shows all possible effects.

Correctly identify the cause.

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

d)

Civil War

10.

As more people moved to cities,

parts of Virginia became more (a)   , and less rural.

11.

Read each option below.

Select all the true statements about John Mercer Langston.

a)

A Virginia born doctor who was educated in Ohio after the Civil War.

b)

From Louisa County, Virginia, he was an abolitionist for the Underground Railroad.

c)

The first African American elected to the U.S. Congress from Virginia.

d)

President of a Black college in Petersburg, Virginia. (Virginia State University)

12.

Select all options that were problems faced

by Virginians during the Reconstruction Era.

a)

Confederate money had no value.

b)

Railroads, bridges, farms, crops, and roads were destroyed.

c)

Confederate banks were permanently closed.

d)

African Americans faced violence and discrimination.

13.

What were two major purposes of the Reconstruction Era?

a)

Punish former Confederate states for seceding from the Union.

b)

To rebuild portions of the United States of America.

c)

Establish Jim Crow laws to separate people based on skin color.

d)

Bring southern states, formerly in the Confederacy, back into the Union.

14.

Identify the relationship between freed enslaved people and white landowners shown in the diagram.

a)

Discrimination

b)

Sharecropping

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

15.

Which is an effect caused by Jim Crow laws?

a)

Women were not upset that did not gain the right to vote.

b)

African American men had difficulties voting because of poll taxes and literacy tests.

c)

African American boy and a white boy attended to the same schools.