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Grade 4 Reconstruction
During Reconstruction, Texas had to
  1. sign the Emancipation Proclamation
  2. rebuild the plantations because so many had been destroyed
  3. rebuild its government in order to join the United States
  4. write the Black Codes, which gave African Americans the right to vote
Grade 6 Reconstruction

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What was the original name for Memorial Day?
  1. Tribute Day
  2. Remembrance Day
  3. Decoration Day
  4. Veterans Day
Grade 8 Reconstruction
Which of the following is an example of the Ku Klux Klan's reaction to voting by African Americans?
  1. Members of the Ku Klux Klan helped to register black voters in the South.
  2. Members of the Ku Klux Klan conducted acts of violence that led to the decline of voting by African Americans.
  3. Members of the Ku Klux Klan pledged to protect the rights of African Americans.
  4. Members of the Ku Klux Klan were willing to share political power with African Americans.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
One reason for the conflict between President Johnson and Congress was
  1. Johnson had been a Copperhead during the war.
  2. Johnson put his plan for Reconstruction into effect without consulting Congress.
  3. Congress did not want a Democrat to be president.
  4. Congressmen resented the fact that Johnson was a southerner.
Grade 9 Reconstruction
Granted the right to vote to all male citizens of the United States, including freed slaves.
  1. 13th amendment
  2. 14th amendment
  3. 15th amendment
  4. 16th amendment
Grade 8 Reconstruction
What was one of the first signs of conflict between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction?
  1. Johnson vetoed every bill sent to him by Congress.
  2. Congress refused to let Johnson succeed Lincoln as President.
  3. Johnson gave a speech in which he said that he could not work with Congress.
  4. Congress refused to seat southern senators and representatives who had been newly elected by Southern states.
Grade 11 Reconstruction
Jim Crow Laws segregated                   from white people.
  1. immigrants
  2. African Americans
  3. American Indians
Grade 11 Reconstruction
Under Lincoln's plan, how could states come back into the Union?
  1. States could come back when 10% of their voters took an oath to support the United States
  2. When the majority of White men swear loyalty to the United States
  3. When African Americans are allowed to vote
Grade 8 Reconstruction
How did Reconstruction finally come to an end?
  1. To become President, Rutherford B. Hayes promised the Democrats that he would end Reconstruction.
  2. The Democrats won the election of 1876 and ended Reconstruction.
  3. President Grant ended Reconstruction just before leaving office.
  4. Congress voted to end Reconstruction.
Grade 11 Reconstruction
Which of the following was not a provision of the Reconstruction Act of 1867
  1. the South would be divided into military districts
  2. Southern states had to pass the Fourteenth Amendment
  3. Southern states had to give African Americans the right to vote
  4. All African-American families would receive 40 Acres and a mule
Grade 8 Reconstruction
The Radicals began to lose power
  1. with Johnson's impeachment.
  2. with the assassination of Lincoln.
  3. after Reconstruction ended.
  4. when Grant was elected President
Grade 11 Reconstruction
This college was built by Booker T. Washington and located in Alabama.
  1. Alabama State University
  2. Oakwood Cpllege
  3. Alabama A & M University
  4. Tuskegee University
Grade 8 Reconstruction
Amnesty
  1. state laws that recreated the conditions similar to those of slavery
  2. official government pardon
  3. provided Aftrican Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans
  4. secret society that used violence to deny African Americans their rights
Grade 8 Reconstruction
Many of the teachers in schools set up by the Freedmen's Bureau
  1. were men who had fought for the Union during the war.
  2. refused to teach black and white children in the same school.
  3. were women who had been educated in the North.
  4. did not want to work in the South.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
As opponents of the Republicans began to take back the South,
  1. African Americans slowly gained more rights.
  2. African Americans lost more rights.
  3. campaigns of terror against African Americans came to an end.
  4. Democrats lost power in the South.
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