Reconstruction Test

Question 1

Homer Plessy brought a lawsuit that challenged the south’s ________________.

Answer 1

racial segregation laws

Question 2

The South was broken into 5 different military districts during Military Reconstruction.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The _________ acts as the jury during the impeachment process.

Answer 3

Senate

Question 4

Northerners who moved to the South to help or profit from Reconstruction.

Answer 4

carpetbaggers

Question 5

Political party that nominated Rutherford B. Hayes for president in 1876.

Answer 5

Republicans

Question 6

Political party that nominated Samuel Tilden for president in 1876.

Answer 6

Democrats

Question 7

Blacks in the south who borrowed land, tools, and seed from whites and paid them with part of their crops.

Answer 7

sharecroppers

Question 8

_______________ assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

Answer 8

John Wilkes Booth

Question 9

White southerners who were viewed as traitors for collaborating with northern Republicans during Reconstruction were called ____________.

Answer 9

scalawags

Question 10

___________ was Lincoln’s vice president and he was also supposed to be assassinated.

Answer 10

Andrew Johnson

Question 11

_____________ was Lincoln’s secretary of state who was attacked but managed to survive the attack.

Answer 11

William Seward

Question 12

___________ were racist laws enacted by southern governments to control the movements of blacks.

Answer 12

black codes

Question 13

Reconstruction lasted from 1865 until ___________.

Answer 13

1877

Question 14

Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction, known as the ___________, went pretty easy on the South.

Answer 14

10% Plan

Question 15

Lincoln vetoed the initial Radical Republican’s plan, which was known as the ________________. This plan called for punishing the South.

Answer 15

Wade Davis Bill

Question 16

Under Johnson’s Plan, many former ______________ officials and soldiers were allowed to vote and hold office, which angered the Radical Republicans.

Answer 16

Confederate

Question 17

The ____________ were upset when many former southern soldiers and officials were allowed to vote and hold office under President Johnson.

Answer 17

Radical Republicans

Question 18

_________________ was when the North placed the military in the South in order to force the South to obey the Radical Republican’s rules.

Answer 18

Military Reconstruction Plan

Question 19

One of the KKK’s goals was to end Reconstruction through intimidation and violence.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

The KKK was the military wing of the Republican Party.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

The KKK was founded by former Confederate soldiers.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Lincoln’s assassination occurred at Ford’s Theatre during a play.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

Lincoln’s assassination was carried out by a famous American actor.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

The goal of Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan was to punish the South and keep them from re-entering the U.S.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

Agency created to help blacks and whites in the south after the Civil War

Answer 25

Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 26

Agreement ended Reconstruction

Answer 26

Compromise of 1877

Question 27

Separate facilities for blacks and whites in the South

Answer 27

Segregation

Question 28

Born in the U.S. meant citizenship.

Answer 28

14th Amendment

Question 29

Allowed whites to vote in the South without poll tax or literacy test

Answer 29

Grandfather clause

Question 30

Abolished slavery

Answer 30

13th Amendment

Question 31

Had to pass this in order to vote.

Answer 31

Literacy Test

Question 32

Couldn’t vote unless you paid this.

Answer 32

Poll tax