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