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The Reconstruction
Test Description: Reconstruction and Redemption in the South
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Which word means to accuse a public official of a wrongdoing while in office?
A
vigilance
B
impeachment
C
fraud
D
segregation
2) What was a Northerner who moved to the South to get a government job after the Civil War?
A
freedman
B
scalawag
C
carpetbagger
D
sharecropper
3) Who was a scalawag?
A
Former slave who now worked for the North
B
Southerner who sided with the North
C
Blockade runner
D
member of a secret Southern organization
4) What is fraud?
A
blocking ships from harbors
B
cheating or trying to gain something unlawfully
C
supporting a cause that has no hope of success
D
trying to stop someone from voting
5) Vigilante justice involves
A
imposing a tax on black voters
B
taking the law into one's own hands without any legal authority to do so
C
separating blacks from whites in public places
D
establishing northern businesses in the South
6) What is segregation?
A
separating blacks from whites in society
B
requiring a literacy test to qualify as a voter
C
imposing high taxes on Southern plantations
D
removing a President from office
7) What secret group in the South used violence to prevent black people from exercising their civil rights?
A
Daughters of the American Revolution
B
Ku Klux Klan
C
Freedman's Bureau
D
Jim Crow Society
8) Who was Lincoln's vice president?
A
Andrew Johnson
B
Ulysses S. Grant
C
Jefferson Davis
D
Stephen Douglas
9) What was a sodbuster?
A
a settler
B
a rancher
C
a cowboy
D
a government official
10) In what battle did General Custer and his men get killed fighting Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse?
A
Battle of Antietam
B
Battle of the Alamo
C
Battle of Bunker Hill
D
Battle of LIttle Big Horn
11) Which two groups often struggled with one another in the West?
A
ranchers and cowboys
B
cowboys and railroad companies
C
farmers and sodbusters
D
ranchers and farmers
12) What helped populate the West?
A
boats
B
railroads
C
covered wagons
D
horses
13) What is the 13th amendment?
A
gave black men the right to vote
B
gave women the right to vote
C
gave civil rights to all people born in the US
D
abolishes slavery
14) What group helped struggling freed slaves and poor whites after the Civil War?
A
Ku Klux Klan
B
Red Cross
C
Salvation Army
D
Freedman's Bureau
15) What laws limited what blacks could do in the South?
A
13th amendment
B
Ten Commandments
C
Bill of Rights
D
Black Codes
16) Which group of laws tried to discriminate against blacks?
A
Jim Crow laws
B
Reconstruction Act of 1867
C
Bill of Rights
D
14th amendment
17) Which amendment supported civil rights (rights of a citizen)?
A
16th
B
13th
C
14th
D
15th
18) Which amendment gave the right to vote to black men?
A
12th
B
13th
C
15th
D
14th
19) What did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 do?
A
Removed Jefferson Davis from office
B
Gave the military authority to control states that had seceded from the Union
C
Gave the South the right to govern itself
D
Gave the North the right to move south and take over all businesses
20) Which group of people were hurt greatly from the westward expansion?
A
Southerners
B
Cowboys
C
Immigrants
D
Native Americans
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