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Reconstruction Test Review

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Name
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2.
Which word best describes Lincoln original plan for Reconstruction, which Johnson largely followed?
a)
neutral
b)
Aggressive
c)
lenient
d)
balanced
3.
Which group wanted to punish the Confederate states during Reconstruction?
a)
Radical Republicans
b)
Lincoln
c)
Johnson
d)
Jim Crow
4.
Explain how the Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction in the South.
4 lines
5.
Which of the following abolished slavery?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
6.
Which of the following made all persons born or naturalized in the United States citizens of the nation?
a)
13th amendment
b)
14th amendment
c)
15th amendment
d)
Reconstruction Act of 1867
7.
List the following ways in which the Freedmen's Bureau helped freedmen during Reconstruction. (Check all the apply).
a)
Education
b)
Food
c)
Jobs
d)
Clothing
8.
After the Civil War, why did new Republican governments in the South have difficulty?
a)
African Americans resented interference from Northern carpetbaggers.
b)
Slavery remained in force in several Southern states.
c)
Many white Southerners refused to accept equal rights for African America
d)
African Americans did not hold office at the state or local level.
9.
President Johnson was impeached by.
a)
Senate
b)
The House of Representatives
c)
Grant
d)
Supreme Court
10.
Southerners who support Reconstruction were known as:
a)
Scalawags
b)
carpetbaggers
c)
Jim Crow Laws
d)
Confederates
11.
Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction
a)
Carpet Baggers
b)
Scalawags
c)
Jim Crow
d)
Confederates
12.
Why did the federal government eventually send troops into the South?
a)
to keep Confederate veterans from forming a new Southern army
b)
to limit violence and voter intimidation against African Americans
c)
to protect the land farmed by African American sharecroppers
d)
to put down riots caused by bank failures during the Panic of 1873
13.
Hiram Revels was the first African American
a)
U.S. Senator
b)
army general
c)
cabinet member
d)
Surpreme Court
14.
The Compromise of 1877 signaled an end to
a)
the Panic of 1873.
b)
the republican party
c)
Reconstruction
d)
Civil Rights Legislation
15.
No one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or former enslavement, according to the
a)
black codes
b)
13th amendment
c)
14th amendment
d)
15th amendment
16.
What state had the most electrical college votes.
a)
Ohio
b)
Pennsylvania
c)
New York
d)
Illinois
17.
Which of the following statements is supported by the map?
a)
The states in the West and the North tended to vote for Hayes.
b)
The states with disputed results were all in the South.
c)
All states with more than 20 electoral votes voted for Hayes.
d)
Tilden won more states than Hayes.