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Grade 12 Reconstruction
In 1865,What was the name of the new President who took over for Abraham Lincoln, when he was assassinated in April 1865?
  1. President Davis
  2. President Cleveland
  3. President Obama
  4. President Johnson
Grade 7 Reconstruction
Which plan for rebuilding the South required 50% of the white males of a state to swear loyalty to the Union before readmission?
  1. Ten Percent Plan
  2. Reconstruction Act of 1866
  3. Freedmen's Bureau
  4. Wade-Davis Bill
Grade 10 Reconstruction
After the Civil War, the purpose of adding the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution was to:
  1. grant civil and political rights to Native American Indian
  2. allow women to become full citizens
  3. guarantee African American equal treatment under the law
  4. extend constitutional rights to new territories
Grade 5 Reconstruction
                       is the name of the period when the South rejoined the Union.
  1. Bill of Rights Act
  2. Rebellion Slave Revolt
  3. Friendship Reward Act
  4. Reconstruction
Grade 8 Reconstruction
What were President Lincoln's plans for reconstruction following the Civil War?
  1. A southern state could form a new government if 10% of its former slaves agreed to remain on their plantations and work to rebuild the South
  2. A southern state could form a new government after 10% of its voters agreed to abolish slavery and swore an oath of loyalty to the Union
  3. A southern state could form a new government after 10% of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States and the new state abolished slavery
  4. A southern state could form a new government if white men in each state swore loyalty to the Union, but those who fought for the Confederacy would be denied the right to vote
Grade 8 Reconstruction
Which person was the first African American to serve on the Senate? (started in 1870)
  1. U.S. Grant
  2. Stephen Douglas
  3. Bruce Lee
  4. Hiram Revels
Grade 8 Reconstruction
Republicans who wanted "hard" Reconstruction were called
  1. freedmen.
  2. Copperheads.
  3. Radical Republicans.
  4. carpetbaggers.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
Which of the following was NOT a major goal of Reconstruction?
  1. to bring the southern states back into the Union
  2. to ensure Black Americans their freedom, and civil and political rights
  3. to preserve the health of the economy
  4. to ease immigration laws in order to rebuild the population
Grade 11 Reconstruction
After the Civil War, agriculture in the south was
  1. dominated by cotton
  2. dependent on many crops
  3. dominated by tobacco
  4. dominated by vegetables
Grade 3 Reconstruction
Why did many African Americans move to the North in the late 1800s?
  1. They hoped to find farming jobs there.
  2. They hoped to find factory jobs there.
  3. South Carolina was getting too crowded.
  4. Northern cities offered them free places to live.
Grade 10 Reconstruction
After the Civil War, freedmen in the South had difficulty improving their economic condition because
  1. literacy for formerly enslaved persons was prohibited.
  2. migration of factory workers from Northern cities had created competition for jobs.
  3. the federal government confiscated their 40- acre grants.
  4. the system of sharecropping kept them in a cycle of poverty.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
How were the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments similar?
  1. They were immediately approved by all of the states.
  2. They were based on the idea of "separate but equal."
  3. They helped African Americans gain civil rights.
  4. They helped southern states set up new governments.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
Which of the following is an example of efforts to limit the freedoms of African Americans during Reconstruction?
  1. Fifteenth Amendment
  2. Radical Reconstruction
  3. Ku Klux Klan
  4. Ten Percent Plan
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