WorksheetsCW RECON GMAS
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 17mins
During the Civil War, why did President Lincoln suspend habeas corpus?
To encourage more soldiers to join the Union army
To prevent Confederate sympathizers from undermining the war effort in the North
To expand voting rights to women
Which Reconstruction plan imposed military rule on the Southern states?
Hunger Games Bill
Lincoln's 10% Plan
Johnson's Plan
Radical Reconstruction
Which region was left most damaged physically and economically after the Civil War?
North
South
East
West
What did the Freedmen's Bureau do to help newly freed slaves?
showed them maps of the Underground Railroad
taught them to become farmers
helped them find homes and jobs
all of the above
Which is an example of a Jim Crow law?
Freedmen must be allowed to vote
Black and white people must ride in separate train cars
Freedmen can't gather in groups
Freedmen can NOT vote
What are scalawags?
Northerners who believed in slavery
Southerners who didn't want secession
Northerners who went South for opportunities after the war
supporters of the rights of freedmen
What does the Fifteenth Amendment state?
voting is a guaranteed right to all male citizens
all people born in the US are citizens
slavery is banned in the US
all of the above
What is amnesty?
protection of your Constitutional rights
authority over a particular area
a large group pardon
a list of freedoms that all citizens have
What are carpetbaggers?
Northerners who believed in slavery
Southerners who didn't want secession
Northerners who went South for opportunities after the war
supporters of the rights of freedmen
Which is a black code?
black and white people must ride in separate train cars
freedmen can't make insulting gestures
black people must be allowed to vote
all are black codes
All of the following was part of the "Anaconda Plan" EXCEPT:
Block all southern ports to cut off shipping
Divide the north into sections
Control the Mississippi River
Capture the Confederate capital, Richmond
Match the following based on the Reconstruction Plans
Lincoln
Original plan to rebuild the nation and readmit Southern states to the nation
Andrew Johnson
State needs to abolish slavery before being readmitted
Republicans
Shift control of Reconstruction from executive branch to the legislature
Congress
States are required to approve the Fourteenth Amendment to be readmitted
Freedmen´s Bureau
Agency established by Congress to help former slaves in the South
Reconstruction
Period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War
Fourteenth Amendment
African American Citizenship
Fifteenth Amendment
Banned states from denying African Americans right to vote
Sharecropping
Landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in exchange for a portion of their crops
