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- 1. Multiple Choice
Reconstruction is known as the period of rebuilding after the _________ War.
Civil
French and Indian
Great
Revolutionary
- 2. Multiple Choice
A state could return to the Union when it had done all of the following EXCEPT______________________
accepted a new state constitution
recognized the passing of the 14th amendment
passed black codes to establish law and order in the state
agreed to give all men, black and white, the right to vote
- 3. Multiple Choice
Southerners who supported Republican reconstruction efforts were called______________.
abolitionists
scalawags
carpetbaggers
slaves
- 4. Multiple Choice
Why did so many African Americans leave the southern states after the war?
There was better weather in the North
Their families were in the North
There were more jobs in northern cities
There was a drought in the South
- 5. Multiple Choice
What was Lincoln's reason behind treating the southern states fairly after the war?
He wanted to give all the plantations back to the original owners.
He wanted to reunite the whole country.
He wanted to give the South control over national government
He wanted to pay for Reconstruction.
- 6. Multiple Choice
What did the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments mean for African Americans?
African Americans were free citizens and the men could vote.
All African Americans became citizens.
Slavery was abolished.
Equal protection could not be denied any citizen.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Slavery in all parts of the United States was officially ended by the ______________.
Missouri Compromise
Kansas Nebraska Act
Thirteenth Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which Amendment gave African American males the right to vote in the United States?
Twelfth
Fourteeth
Thirteenth
Fifthteeth
- 9. Multiple Choice
The 14th Amendment was approved by the states and became part of the U.S. Constitution in 1868. The purpose of this amendment was to define citizenship and protect the rights of whom?
European immigrants
African Americans
factory workers
women
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which government agency helped people get an education by setting up schools and hiring teachers?
Jim Crow
scalawags
Freedmen's Bureau
carpetbaggers
- 11. Multiple Choice
The Freedmen's Bureau mostly helped
Radical Republicans
former slaves and the poor
business owners
landowners
- 12. Multiple Choice
What did the Freedmen's Bureau distribute to people in need?
carpet
medicine and food
cotton and tabacco
information about how to fish
- 13. Multiple Choice
The Freedmen's Bureau helped to build which of the following during reconstruction?
railroads
schools
churches
plantations
- 14. Multiple Choice
A system designed to allow poor southerners to farm without buying land was known as?
banking
sharecropping
specialization
slavery
- 15. Multiple Choice
Under Jim Crow laws, what places were African Americans allowed to enter/use?
Any were they wanted
Only to the same schools as white children
Only to the same restaurants as whites
Only to the businesses labeled for "colored people"
- 16. Multiple Choice
What was one name for the special rules that kept African Americans from voting?
Freedmen's Bureau
reconstructions
black codes
specialization
- 17. Multiple Choice
_____________- A system in which workers gave land owners a share of their crops in exchange for goods and the ability to farm the land.
Sharecropping
Segregation
carpetbagging
- 18. Multiple Choice
___________________- this amendment granted voting rights to African American men.
15th
14th
- 19. Multiple Choice
Northerners who moved south after the war were known as____________.
Carpetbaggers
Sharecroppers
- 20. Multiple Choice
The separation of black and white people by state laws.
segregation
Freedmen's rules
- 21. Multiple Choice
The organization that helped many former slaves adjust to freedom.
Freedmen's Bureau
Slaves Way Out
NAACP
- 22. Multiple Choice
This amendment allowed African Americans to be citizens of the U.S.
13th
14th
15th
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