WorksheetsReconstruction Era Quiz 3&4
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The _____ Party was the dominant political party during Reconstruction.
Republican
Democratic
Know-Nothing
Whig
The number of African Americans holding important government positions during Reconstruction was ____.
zero
very small
about half of all government officials in the South
nearly all government officials in the South
Carpetbaggers and scalawags supported the _____ Party in the South.
Dixicrat
Republican
States' Rights
Democratic
____ was the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
Blanche Bruce
Josiah T. Walls
Hiram Revels
Jonathan C. Gibbs
Which word is closest in meaning to scalawag?
hero
scoundrel
sharecropper
rebel
Scalawags were ____.
white Northerners
white Southerners
Southern African Americans
Northern African Americans
Many Northern whites who moved to the South after the Civil War were called _____ by Southerners.
scalawags
scoundrels
carpetbaggers
the Ku Klux Klan
The number of African Americans attending school during Reconstruction ____.
increased
decreased
decreased for children and increased for adults
increased for children and decreased for adults
Most schools built during Reconstruction were _____.
designed to educate sharecroppers
segregated
integrated
boarding schools
In sharecropping, what does the farmer give the landowner?
a percentage of the crop
profits from crop sales
seeds, tools, and a mule
money for rent
His reputation as a war hero carried _____ to the White House in the election of 1868.
Robert E. Lee
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ulysses S. Grant
David Farragut
The United States suffered an economic wave of fear in the Panic of ____.
1869
1873
1877
1881
Which person was a “redeemer”?
a Southern Democrat
a Northern Democrat
a Southern Republican
a Northern Republican
The election of ____ as president brought Reconstruction to an end.
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel Tilden
Andrew Johnson
In ____ the last Union troops left the South, marking the end of Reconstruction.
1875
1876
1877
1878
Which word most accurately describes Southern industry in the 1880s?
nonexistent
inactive
destroyed
growing
Southern leaders used _____ to prevent African Americans from voting.
poll taxes
literacy tests
threats
All of the above
Jim Crow laws required which practice?
integration
segregation
literacy tests
sharecropping
Where did Exodusters go?
to Texas
to the South
to Kansas
to Chicago
_____ were African Americans who escaped the South by joining the army.
Exodusters
Buffalo soldiers
Scalawags
Redeemers
