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Reconstruction Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

After the Civil War, Congress passed a series of amendments called the Reconstruction Amendments. The ​ (a)   amendment stated slavery was illegal.

Choose from the below words

13th

14th

15th

12th

2.

Which amendment to the US Constitution granted full citizenship to all people born in the United States?

(a)  

3.

Which amendment to the US Constitution prohibited the state and federal governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen because of "race?"

(a)  

Choose from the below words

12th

13th

14th

15th

4.

Northerners resented by Southerners for hastily traveling South to make money off Reconstruction were known as

a)

Scalawags

b)

Sharecroppers

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Jim Crows

5.

Making friendly again

a)

Reconciliation

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Servitude

d)

Preservation

6.

This act established direct military rule over former Confederate states until new governments could be formed.

a)

The Emancipation Proclamation

b)

The Thirteenth Amendment

c)

Civil War Act

d)

Reconstruction Act

7.

Which group wanted freedmen to be granted full political equality?

a)

Radical Republicans

b)

Abolitionists

c)

Unionists

d)

Confederate States

8.

How did Abraham Lincoln wanted to treat the South? (a)  

Choose from the below words
harshly
leniently
severely
rigorously
9.

What were free slaves called? (a)  

Choose from the below words
Indentured servants
Abolitionists
Colonists
freedmen
10.

The ​ (a)   Era refers to the period after the Civil War, especially in the ​ (b)   . ​

Choose from the below words
Reconstruction
South
Civil War
North
11.

Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assasinated? (a)  

Choose from the below words
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
James K. Polk
12.

What was established to help the freed slaves with food, schooling, clothing and medical care?

a)

Underground Railroad

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

d)

Thirteenth Amendment

13.

What did the Southern states pass?

a)

The Black Codes

b)

The Jim Crow Laws

c)

The Fugitive Slave Act

d)

The Thirteenth Amendment

14.

A law that required blacks to work or face being arrested or forced to work as a servant

a)

Freedmen Bureau

b)

Sharecropping

c)

Black Codes

d)

Compromise of 1877

15.

A terrorist group that prevented blacks from voting

a)

Ku Klux Klan

b)

Freedmen Bureau

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

16.

A federal law that outlawed Black Codes

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1865

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1867

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1868

17.

What was the purpose of the Military Reconstruction Act

a)

To outlaw Black Codes

b)

To oversee and enforce Reconstruction Legislation

c)

To provide assistance to former slaves after the Civil War

d)

To allow ex-Confederate officials to hold political office

18.

a farming system that keep blacks poor and uneducated

a)

poll tax

b)

sharecropping

c)

black code

d)

14th Amendment

19.

A tax used to keep black and poor whites from voting

a)

Literacy Test

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

14th Amendment

d)

Poll tax

20.

A test given before poor whites and freedmen could vote in the United States

a)

Poll Tax

b)

Literacy test

c)

Black codes

d)

Jim Crow Laws