WorksheetsReconstruction Vocabulary Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Reconstruction Act of 1867
What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
To enforce Jim Crow Laws that legally separated blacks and whites
Deny voting rights of Freedmen during Reconstruction in America
Give needed rights to Freedmen after the Civil War
To help former slaves after the Civil War
What were the Black Codes?
A plan for Reconstruction put forth by Radical Republicans
laws that set out to help Freedmen adjust to American citizenship
Laws that restricted the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
A Supreme Court case that outlawed segregation in public facilities
What are civil rights?
Civil rights are the rights that protect individuals' freedom
What did the 14th Amendment guarantee?
freedom from slavery
unrestricted voting rights for all
the right to free education
Citizenship and equal protection under the law
What the 15th Amendment?
a change to the Constitution that stopped a state from denying voting rights based on race
a change to the Constitution that outlawed slavery in America
a change to the Constitution that granted equal protection to all American citizens.
A law that granted citizenship to all born in the United States
What is a poll tax?
What does the term "segregation" mean?
Segregation is the separation of people based on race
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws set up to punish the former Confederate States
Laws that enforced segregation in the South
laws that allowed poor whites to bypass voting restrictions
A series of amendments created to protect Freedmen's civil rights
What was the Ten Percent Plan?
A plan for Southern states to rejoin the Union if 10% of voters swore loyalty
A plan to tax 10% of income
A plan to free 10% of slaves
A plan to build 10% more schools
What does "integration" mean?
Bringing people of different races together
Keeping people separated
Creating new laws
Paying a tax to vote
Who were freedmen?
Government officials
People who wrote new laws
Former slaves who were freed after the Civil War
Judges in court cases
What was the case Plessy v Ferguson about?
It forced Freedmen to work as sharecroppers on American plantations
It ended slavery
It gave freedmen the right to vote
It legalized segregation based on race
What were literacy tests used for?
To help educate Freedmen and poor whites
To prevent certain people from voting by requiring them to read and write
assessments people had to pass in order to become citizens
assessments geared at helping Freedmen learn about proper procedures for voting
What does "Reconstruction" refer to in U.S. history?
The period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt and brought back into the Union
The time before the Civil War
The building of new schools
The creation of new states
What was created to help ex-slaves assimilate into American culture by providing food, clothing, shelter, and jobs?
Black Code
Civil Rights Act
Freedmen's Bureau
Jim Crow Laws
These were a series of laws to limit the civil rights of ex-slaves.
Freedmen's Laws
Civil Rights Laws
Voting Rights Acts
Black Codes
Supreme Court case that legalized segregation based on race by establishing the "separate but equal" doctrine.
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Marbury v. Madison
Whiich of the following demanded a fee as a prerequisite to voting?
Literacy Test
Black Code
Grandfather Clause
Poll Tax
Required voters to pass an exam before being permitted to vote.
The Earth Science Regents
Literacy Test
Black Code
Jim Crow Law
What was created to protect the voting rights of poor, uneducated white southerns?
Black Codes
Grandfather Clause
Civil Rights Act
Freedmen's Bureau
stopped a state from denying voting rights based on race.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
President Abraham Lincoln plan for reuniting North & South as quickly and easily as possible.
Ten Percent Plan
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Freedmen's Bureau
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
After the Civil War, many freedmen took jobs as __________________________. Unfortunately, this often times led to a cycle of debt and kept freedmen under the control of white plantation owners.
teachers
sharecroppers
factory workers
merchants
Extreme members of Congress who set out to punish the south and give voting rights to freedmen.
Freedmen
Southern Democrats
Radical Republicans
Federalists
This divided southern states into military districts and required them to ratify the 14th Amendment before being able to rejoin the Union.
Reconstruction Act
Jim Crow laws
black codes
Ten Percent Plan
To bring charges against a public official.
appoint
elect
pardon
impeach
These were created to separate blacks from whites in public facilities.
Reconstruction Amendments
Civil Rights Acts
Jim Crow laws
Black Codes
Which of the following best describes a key difference between Black Codes and Jim Crow laws?
Jim Crow laws were created during Reconstruction, while Black Codes were passed in the 20th century.
Black Codes were enacted to limit the rights of freedmen, while Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation
Both Black Codes and Jim Crow laws were federal laws passed by Radical Republicans
Black Codes were designed to enforce segregation, while Jim Crow laws restricted voting rights.
How did Black Codes impact the lives of newly freed African Americans after the Civil War?
They provided free land to former slaves
They allowed African Americans to hold public office
They restricted freedoms by limiting movement, employment, and civil rights
They guaranteed equal rights and protections under the law
