History Unit 1 Test

Question 1

Reconstruction

Answer 1

the rebuilding of the south

Question 2

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 2

created to help formerly enslaved people, provided education, health, housing, and more

Question 3

13th Amendment

Answer 3

banned slavery

Question 4

14th Amendment

Answer 4

any person born in the U.S. is a U.S. citizen

Question 5

15th Amendment

Answer 5

all citizens can vote regardless of race

Question 6

Carpetbagger

Answer 6

men from the North that came to the South after the Civil War to make money from the people of the South.

Question 7

Black Codes

Answer 7

Southern laws designed to stop African Americans from getting jobs and to limit their rights

Question 8

Sharecropping

Answer 8

a freedman would be allowed to live and farm on the land of a plantation owner, but would have to pay for supplies and give a share of his crops to the owner. In the end, they always owed more money than they made

Question 9

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 9

A Supreme Court Case that determined segregation was legal if “separate but equal” was followed. It allowed Jim Crow laws

Question 10

KKK

Answer 10

a group that terrorized African Americans to stop them from getting their rights

Question 11

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 11

Laws that kept blacks and whites separate in public places.

Question 12

Segregation

Answer 12

keeping blacks and whites separate

Question 13

Secede

Answer 13

To break away. The South wanted to break from the US during the Civil War.

Question 14

Union

Answer 14

The states that were part of the United States during the war (Yankees)

Question 15

Confederacy

Answer 15

The states that did not want to be a part of the United States during the Civil War (rebels)

Question 16

Freedman

Answer 16

a freed slave

Question 17

Civil War

Answer 17

A conflict between two groups of people in a country.

Question 18

Slavery

Answer 18

Forced labor with no pay and no freedom to make your own choices.

Question 19

Scalawag

Answer 19

A white Southerner who was loyal to the North during Reconstruction. (Southerns thought these people were traitors!)

Question 20

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 20

A law that said all citizens in the US (including former slaves) should be treated equally.

Question 21

Sharecroppers

Answer 21

Former slaves who farmed land for a share of the profits. They did not make much money.

Question 22

Disrimination

Answer 22

Behaving unfairly, toward the members of a group.

Question 23

Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan

Answer 23

10 percent of southerns would have to take a loyalty oath
He wanted reconciliation more than punishment for the South
Confederate leaders were not forgiven (given amnesty) under his plan

Question 24

President Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan

Answer 24

Required passage of the 13th amendment

Gave former leaders of the Confederacy the ability to vote and run for office

Question 25

Radical Republicans Reconstruction Plan

Answer 25

Strict plan Divided the South into Military Districts Required the South to give blacks the right to vote

Question 26

Frederick Douglass

Answer 26

Famous African American writer and orator. During and after Reconstruction he pushed for the right of blacks and women to vote (suffrage)

Question 27

Suffrage

Answer 27

Right to vote

Question 28

Robert E. Lee

Answer 28

During Reconstruction, he became President of Washington College. He encouraged Southerns to stop fighting and to rejoin the Union.

Question 29

Loyalty Oath

Answer 29

a pledge of loyalty to a group, such as an organization or a nation