WorksheetsReconstruction Test Review
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 14mins
What was Abraham Lincoln's main goal for Reconstruction?
To reunite the nation as fast and easily as possible
Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution was primarily responsible for granting citizenship and ensuring due process to all persons born or naturalized in the United States?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Civil Rights Act
After the Civil War, what was the main purpose of the black codes enacted by Southern states?
To encourage African Americans to migrate north.
To restrict the rights and movements of freedmen.
To provide land to former slaves.
To promote racial equality in the South.
Which organization was established to assist newly freed African Americans after the Civil War?
Black Codes
Freedmen's Bureau
Sharecroppers
Radical Republicans
Which constitutional amendment officially ended slavery in the United States?
The Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
In the late 1800s, Southern states enacted grandfather clauses primarily to
increase voter turnout among all citizens.
ensure equal voting rights for women.
restrict African Americans from voting.
promote literacy among immigrants.
Which statement should be placed in the box labeled with the number 2?
Ensures all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Bans slavery in the United States and all of its territories.
Grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law.
Guarantees employment to all previous slaves.
Select each Reconstruction Era Amendment.
15th Amendment
13th Amendment
12th Amendment
14th Amendment
Which of the following best describes a key difference between Black Codes and Jim Crow laws?
Black Codes were designed to enforce racial segregation, while Jim Crow laws restricted voting rights.
Both Black Codes and Jim Crow laws were federal laws passed by Congress.
Black Codes were enacted immediately after the Civil War to limit the rights of freedmen, while Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
Jim Crow laws were created to abolish slavery, while Black Codes promoted equal rights.
How did Jim Crow laws differ from Black Codes in their impact on African Americans in the South?
Both Jim Crow laws and Black Codes were abolished before the end of Reconstruction.
Jim Crow laws were only enforced in Northern states, while Black Codes were used in the South.
Black Codes provided African Americans with land, while Jim Crow laws abolished slavery.
Jim Crow laws focused on maintaining racial segregation in public life, while Black Codes primarily restricted the legal rights and labor of freedmen.
Match each Reconstruction Amendment to its main purpose:
1. 13th Amendment
2. 14th Amendment
3. 15th Amendment
A. Granted citizenship and equal protection
B. Abolished slavery
C. Gave African American men the right to vote
Which is the correct matching?
1-B
2-A
3-C
1-A
2-B
3-C
1-C
2-B
3-A
1-B
2-C
3-A
This question was taken off of last year's 11th Grade Regents Exam: Which method was used after Reconstruction to deny African Americans the right illustrated in this poster?
establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau
decision of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education
passage of literacy tests and poll taxes
introduction of sharecropping
