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CW RECON GMAS

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What was a major advantage of the South?
a)
Huge immigrant population
b)
Slaves fighting for them
c)
Better military leadership
d)
Industrial economy
2.
What did Lincoln do to prevent Southern sabotage and protests in the border states?
a)
Started a draft
b)
Suspended the Bill of Rights
c)
Suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus
3.

During the Civil War, why did President Lincoln suspend habeas corpus?

a)

To encourage more soldiers to join the Union army

b)

To prevent Confederate sympathizers from undermining the war effort in the North

c)

To expand voting rights to women

4.

Which Reconstruction plan imposed military rule on the Southern states?

a)

Hunger Games Bill

b)

Lincoln's 10% Plan

c)

Johnson's Plan

d)

Radical Reconstruction

5.

Which region was left most damaged physically and economically after the Civil War?

a)

North

b)

South

c)

East

d)

West

6.

What did the Freedmen's Bureau do to help newly freed slaves?

a)

showed them maps of the Underground Railroad

b)

taught them to become farmers

c)

helped them find homes and jobs

d)

all of the above

7.

Which is an example of a Jim Crow law?

a)

Freedmen must be allowed to vote

b)

Black and white people must ride in separate train cars

c)

Freedmen can't gather in groups

d)

Freedmen can NOT vote

8.

What are scalawags?

a)

Northerners who believed in slavery

b)

Southerners who didn't want secession

c)

Northerners who went South for opportunities after the war

d)

supporters of the rights of freedmen

9.

What does the Fifteenth Amendment state?

a)

voting is a guaranteed right to all male citizens

b)

all people born in the US are citizens

c)

slavery is banned in the US

d)

all of the above

10.

What is amnesty?

a)

protection of your Constitutional rights

b)

authority over a particular area

c)

a large group pardon

d)

a list of freedoms that all citizens have

11.

What are carpetbaggers?

a)

Northerners who believed in slavery

b)

Southerners who didn't want secession

c)

Northerners who went South for opportunities after the war

d)

supporters of the rights of freedmen

12.

Which is a black code?

a)

black and white people must ride in separate train cars

b)

freedmen can't make insulting gestures

c)

black people must be allowed to vote

d)

all are black codes

13.

All of the following was part of the "Anaconda Plan" EXCEPT:

a)

Block all southern ports to cut off shipping

b)

Divide the north into sections

c)

Control the Mississippi River

d)

Capture the Confederate capital, Richmond

14.

Match the following based on the Reconstruction Plans

a)

Lincoln

1.

Original plan to rebuild the nation and readmit Southern states to the nation

b)

Andrew Johnson

2.

State needs to abolish slavery before being readmitted

c)

Republicans

3.

Shift control of Reconstruction from executive branch to the legislature

d)

Congress

4.

States are required to approve the Fourteenth Amendment to be readmitted

15.

Match the following

a)

Freedmen´s Bureau

1.

Agency established by Congress to help former slaves in the South

b)

Reconstruction

2.

Period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War

c)

Fourteenth Amendment

3.

African American Citizenship

d)

Fifteenth Amendment

4.

Banned states from denying African Americans right to vote

e)

Sharecropping

5.

Landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in exchange for a portion of their crops