American Reconstruction Test

Name: _______________________________________________ Per: _____ Date: ____________________

1. Which term best describes the period immediately following the Civil War?
a. Reparation
b. Rebuilding
c. Reconstruction
d. Reconciliation
e. Restoration
2.
President Lincolns plan to repair the south was known as the 10% Plan. Which of
the following best describes this plan?
a. Only 10% of Southerners would be punished for rebelling
b. States could be readmitted once 10% of the people swore allegiance to the Union
c. Only 10% of the rebelling states would be allowed back in the country
d. States could be readmitted after 10% of the states get rid of their slaves
e. Only 10% of the slaves would be set free
3. Congress suggested one of the first plans for Reconstruction, stating that for
Southern states to rejoin the Union, a state had to meet several requirements, such as:
a majority of white males swear loyalty and Confederates could not vote. This plan for
Reconstruction was seen in the ________________.
a. Wade-Davis Bill
b. Ku Klux Klan Act
c. Freedmans Bureau Act
d. The Plan for Amnesty and Reconciliation
e. The Black Codes
4. Lincoln formed this group to provide African Americans with temporary relief and
education during Reconstruction.
a. The KKK
b. The Scalawags
c. The Carpetbaggers
d. The Freedmens Bureau
e. The Radical Republicans
5. Lincoln never got to oversee Reconstruction because
a. Congress overrode his vetoes.
b. He was impeached.
c. He was assassinated.
d. There was a major depression.
e. He was arrested.
6. Following President Lincoln, this President oversaw Reconstruction:
a. Andrew Johnson
b. Ulysses Grant
c. Rutherford Hayes
d. Thaddeus Stevens
e. Edwin Stanton
7. Johnson broke the Tenure of Office Act and fired the Secretary of War, Edwin
Stanton. What did this result in?
a. Reconstruction ended.
b. A commission was formed to investigate.
c. Johnson was lynched.
d. Johnson was impeached.

8. Radical Republicans wanted to be much more _____________ on the Confederacy for

seceding.
a. Strict
b. Lenient
c. Fair
d. Angry
9. What
a.
b.
c.
d.

does the 13th Amendment do?

Gives African-American males the right to vote
Grants equal citizenship and legal protection to African-Americans
Ends slavery in the United States
All of the above

10. What
a.
b.
c.
d.

does the 14th Amendment do?

Gives African-American males the right to vote
Grants equal citizenship and legal protection to African-Americans
Ends slavery in the United States
All of the above

11. What
a.
b.
c.
d.

does the 15th Amendment do?

Gives African-American males the right to vote
Grants equal citizenship and legal protection to African-Americans
Ends slavery in the United States
All of the above

12. What
a.
b.
c.
d.

was the Freedmens Bureau?

A Confederate agency who sought to intimidate African-Americans
An United States agency who sought to protect the legal rights of African-Americans
An agency of African-Americans who fought in the Civil War
A group of slave owners who united in order to reclaim their slave property

13. The Black Codes were created in many Southern states shortly following the Civil
War. What were they?
a. A set of laws passed that guaranteed equal job opportunities for blacks and whites
b. A set of laws that allowed African-Americans to serve in a states legislature
c. A set of laws passed to keep African-Americans from having rights equal as whites
d. A set of laws that kept blacks in separate schools as whites
14. Which of the following describes a carpetbagger?
a. A white southerner who supported Reconstruction in the South
b. A northerner who moved to the South to take advantage of the poor economic and
political situation
c. A former confederate soldier who would terrorize and intimidate former slaves to keep
inferior
d. A former slave who remained on the plantation and worked in exchange for food and
shelter
15. Which of the following describes a scalawag?
a. A white southerner who supported Reconstruction in the South
b. A northerner who moved to the South to take advantage of the poor economic and
political situation
c. A former confederate soldier who would terrorize and intimidate former slaves to keep
inferior
d. A former slave who remained on the plantation and worked in exchange for food and
shelter

16. Which of the following describes a sharecropper?

a. A white southerner who supported Reconstruction in the South
b. A northerner who moved to the South to take advantage of the poor economic and
political situation
c. A former confederate soldier who would terrorize and intimidate former slaves to keep
inferior
d. A former slave who remained on the plantation and worked in exchange for food and
shelter
17.
Following the period of the Black Codes, laws were instituted known as Jim Crow
Laws. What were these?
a. Laws that legally segregated whites and blacks in public places
b. Laws that prevented blacks from voting
c. Laws that forced former slaves into poverty and to stay living on plantations
d. Laws that demanded former slave owners to break up their plantations and give their
land to former slaves
18. How are the Black Codes and the Jim Crow Laws different?
a. The Black Codes were more fair
b. The Jim Crow laws were more fair
c. The Black Codes made no attempt at equality
d. Jim Crow only affected former slaves while the Black Codes affected all AfricanAmericans
19. What
a.
b.
c.
d.

two candidates ran for President in 1877?

Ulysses S Grant v. Rutherford B Hayes
Abraham Lincoln v. Ulysses S Grant
James Garfield v. William Howard Taft
Samuel Tilden v. Rutherford B Hayes

20. Because of a controversy over election results in 1877, the Presidency was given to
the Republicans IF they do what?
a. Repeal the Black Codes in whole country
b. Pull the military out of the South
c. Make the Vice President a Southern Democrat
d. Allow the Ku Klux Klan to do as they wish
21. The name Jim Crow from the Jim Crow laws comes from ____________
a. a book
b. a magazine
c. a type of food
d. a black face character
22. Who would be targeted by the Ku Klux Klan?
a. African-Americans
b. Republicans
c. Carpetbaggers
d. All of the Above
e. None of the Above
In what ways did African-Americans gain more rights during Reconstruction?
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(5 points)

Describe one success and one failure of Reconstruction below (5 points):

1.) _____________________________________________________________________________________
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2.) ______________________________________________________________________________________
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