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Reconstruction Era Quiz 3&4

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The _____ Party was the dominant political party during Reconstruction.

a)

Republican

b)

Democratic

c)

Know-Nothing

d)

Whig

2.

The number of African Americans holding important government positions during Reconstruction was ____.

a)

zero

b)

very small

c)

about half of all government officials in the South

d)

nearly all government officials in the South

3.

Carpetbaggers and scalawags supported the _____ Party in the South.

a)

Dixicrat

b)

Republican

c)

States' Rights

d)

Democratic

4.

____ was the first African American elected to the United States Senate.

a)

Blanche Bruce

b)

Josiah T. Walls

c)

Hiram Revels

d)

Jonathan C. Gibbs

5.

Which word is closest in meaning to scalawag?

a)

hero

b)

scoundrel

c)

sharecropper

d)

rebel

6.

Scalawags were ____.

a)

white Northerners

b)

white Southerners

c)

Southern African Americans

d)

Northern African Americans

7.

Many Northern whites who moved to the South after the Civil War were called _____ by Southerners.

a)

scalawags

b)

scoundrels

c)

carpetbaggers

d)

the Ku Klux Klan

8.

The number of African Americans attending school during Reconstruction ____.

a)

increased

b)

decreased

c)

decreased for children and increased for adults

d)

increased for children and decreased for adults

9.

Most schools built during Reconstruction were _____.

a)

designed to educate sharecroppers

b)

segregated

c)

integrated

d)

boarding schools

10.

In sharecropping, what does the farmer give the landowner?

a)

a percentage of the crop

b)

profits from crop sales

c)

seeds, tools, and a mule

d)

money for rent

11.

His reputation as a war hero carried _____ to the White House in the election of 1868.

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Rutherford B. Hayes

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

d)

David Farragut

12.

The United States suffered an economic wave of fear in the Panic of ____.

a)

1869

b)

1873

c)

1877

d)

1881

13.

Which person was a “redeemer”?

a)

a Southern Democrat

b)

a Northern Democrat

c)

a Southern Republican

d)

a Northern Republican

14.

The election of ____ as president brought Reconstruction to an end.

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

Rutherford B. Hayes

c)

Samuel Tilden

d)

Andrew Johnson

15.

In ____ the last Union troops left the South, marking the end of Reconstruction.

a)

1875

b)

1876

c)

1877

d)

1878

16.

Which word most accurately describes Southern industry in the 1880s?

a)

nonexistent

b)

inactive

c)

destroyed

d)

growing

17.

Southern leaders used _____ to prevent African Americans from voting.

a)

poll taxes

b)

literacy tests

c)

threats

d)

All of the above

18.

Jim Crow laws required which practice?

a)

integration

b)

segregation

c)

literacy tests

d)

sharecropping

19.

Where did Exodusters go?

a)

to Texas

b)

to the South

c)

to Kansas

d)

to Chicago

20.

_____ were African Americans who escaped the South by joining the army.

a)

Exodusters

b)

Buffalo soldiers

c)

Scalawags

d)

Redeemers