WorksheetsAll Reconstruction Vocabulary
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Awarded all the electoral votes to the Republican candidate Rutherford B Hayes in exchange for the Republicans agreeing to withdraw federal troops from the South, basically ending Reconstruction.
a)
lynching
b)
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
c)
Compromise of 1877
d)
Jim Crow Laws
2.
Southern states passed laws that separated blacks and whites in schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, streetcars, playgrounds, hospitals, and even cemeteries.
a)
Compromise of 1877
b)
poll tax
c)
Jim Crow Laws
d)
literacy tests
3.
A negative name given to Southern born white Republicans who were considered traitors by other white Southerners.
a)
scalawag
b)
carpetbagger
c)
conservative
d)
sharecropper
4.
Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation laws.
a)
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
b)
Compromise of 1877
c)
poll tax
d)
Jim Crow Laws
5.
Required voters to read and explain a section of the Constitution.
a)
lynching
b)
poll tax
c)
literacy tests
d)
segregation
6.
Became President after only serving six weeks as Vice President.
a)
John Wilkes Booth
b)
Andrew Johnson
c)
assassinate
d)
13th Amendment
e)
Presidential Reconstruction
7.
Southerners who wanted the South to change as little as possible during Reconstruction.
a)
scalawag
b)
carpetbagger
c)
conservative
d)
sharecropper
8.
When a mob kills someone by hanging.
a)
lynching
b)
poll tax
c)
Jim Crow Laws
d)
segregation
9.
Nickname for Northerners who moved to the South to help rebuild.
a)
carpetbagger
b)
conservative
c)
white supremacy
d)
sharecropper
10.
The belief that white people are superior to those of all other races, especially the black race, and should therefore dominate society.
a)
carpetbagger
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
conservative
d)
white supremacy
11.
Laws passed in Southern states which severely limited the rights of freedmen.
a)
Black Codes
b)
14th Amendment
c)
impeach
d)
First Reconstruction Act
12.
To murder an important person in a surprise attack for political or religious reasons.
a)
John Wilkes Booth
b)
Andrew Johnson
c)
assassinate
d)
13th Amendment
e)
Presidential Reconstruction
13.
Provided food, clothing, and medical care to poor Southerners, especially those freed from slavery.
a)
Wade-Davis Bill
b)
Freedman's Bureau
c)
Reconstruction
d)
Ten Percent Plan
14.
A Reconstruction plan passed by Congress in March 1867, for Southern states to follow in order to rejoin the Union.
a)
Radical Republicans
b)
14th Amendment
c)
Civil Rights Act
d)
First Reconstruction Act
15.
A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.
a)
scalawag
b)
carpetbagger
c)
conservative
d)
sharecropper
16.
A Southern state could form a new government after 10 percent of its voters from the 1860 election swore an oath of loyalty to the United States and abide by emancipation.
a)
Reconstruction
b)
Freedmen
c)
amnesty
d)
Ten Percent Plan
17.
A modification made to the U.S. Constitution making slavery illegal.
a)
John Wilkes Booth
b)
Andrew Johnson
c)
assassinate
d)
13th Amendment
e)
Presidential Reconstruction
18.
An act passed by Congress in 1866, which granted African Americans citizenship rights.
a)
Black Codes
b)
Radical Republicans
c)
Civil Rights Act
d)
First Reconstruction Act
19.
Forgiveness for any crimes committed.
a)
freedom
b)
emancipation
c)
amnesty
d)
veto
20.
A famous actor, Southern spy and rebel sympathizer who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
a)
John Wilkes Booth
b)
Andrew Johnson
c)
assassinate
d)
13th Amendment
e)
Presidential Reconstruction
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