1. Name:_______________________________________Date:________________________Number:_________ Reconstruction Quiz
Selected response
_____ 1.  During Reconstruction, the Black Codes
_____ 2. Which statement MOST ACCURATELY describes the political situation of African Americans in the period of Reconstruction?
_____ 3. What name did southerners give to Northerners that came South after the Civil War?
Forced people to pay before they voted
Designed to limit African American voting rights
Usually enforced in addition to literacy tests
_____4. Which example of a Jim Crow law is being described?
_____ 5. What was the MAIN purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
_____ 6. Which is the BEST description of the goals of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction?
_____7. What is the main difference between Reconstruction plans outlined by President Lincoln and submitted to Congress by President Johnson and the plan of the Radical Republicans?
8. What Tennessee city was the site of a massive yellow fever epidemic in the late 1870's? A)
to help slaves adjust to their newfound freedom B)
to battle terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan C)
to serve as a voice for freed slaves in Congress D)
to establish Black Codes to limit freed slaves' rights A)
protected the Constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves. B)
forced Congress to do the bidding of former Confederate politicians. C)
were enacted by the Radical Republicans to prevent racial discrimination in the South. D)
were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans in a system of virtual slavery. A)
The Ku Klux Klan worked in communities to help rebuild churches, libraries, and schools. B)
The Ku Klux Klan worked with the "carpetbaggers" and the "scalawags" to end segregation. C)
The Ku Klux Klan worked to help Civil War veterans adjust to life after the war by helping them find jobs and housing. D)
The Ku Klux Klan worked to prevent African Americans from exercising their newly found rights and wanted whites to regain control of local governments. A)
African Americans still had not won the right to vote by 1877. B)
African Americans had political rights in the North, not the South. C)
African Americans were represented in state assemblies, but not on the national level. D)
African Americans won Congressional and state legislative representation from Southern states. A)
The Presidential plan allowed all former Confederate soldiers to vote. B)
The Presidential plan blocked al former slaves from holding public offices. C)
The Radical Republicans’ plan divided the Southern states into military districts. D)
The Radical Republicans’ plan required military leaders to revise state constitutions. A)
scalawags C)
Ku Klux Klan B)
copperheads D)
carpetbaggers A)
Poll tax C)
fingerprinting B)
Voter ID D)
Grandfather Clause A)
Chattanooga C)
Memphis B)
Knoxville D)
Nashville

2. Analyzing primary sources
_____ 9. Which statement regarding the era of Reconstruction is FALSE?
_____ 10. In the years following the Civil War, as many as 40,000 African-Americans moved to western states like Colorado, Oklahoma, and Kansas to escape the discrimination, racism, and violence of the "Jim Crow" South. Which term or phrase is MOST CLOSELY associated with this trend?
_____ 11. Which is the BEST example of a "pull factor" for the thousands of African-Americans who moved to the North and West during the Reconstruction era?
_____ 12. Which is the BEST example of a "push factor" for the thousands of African-Americans who moved to the North and West during the Reconstruction era?
Analyzing primary sources
Read the following primary sources and answer the questions that accompany them:
13. What is the PURPOSE of this amendment?
14. What group of people does this amendment protect?
15. What basic right does this amendment give? Who did it directly affect?
16. What approximate date do you think these were written/passed? What do they all have in common? A)
the 13th Amendment outlawed slavery in all American states B)
state laws and customs upheld the constitutional amendments C)
the 14th Amendment made African-Americans citizens of the U.S. D)
federal law was changed to abolish slavery in states where it still existed
13th Amendment:
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
14th Amendment: 1868
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction (laws) thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge (limit) the privileges or immunities (rights) of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. A)
Exodusters C)
Freedom Riders B)
Great Migration D)
Million Man March A)
job insecurity and low wages in the South B)
"Jim Crow" laws and segregation in the South C)
better job opportunities in the North and West D)
persecution from groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the White League
15th Amendment: 1870
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. A)
better housing and living conditions in the North and West B)
"Jim Crow" laws, discrimination, and segregation in the South C)
increased personal freedom and privileges in the North and West D)
better job opportunities and higher wages in the North and West

3. Reconstruction Quiz: Retake
Complete the following chart for all the answers you got INCORRECT. It must be completely filled out (chart, #13-16, and writing) for points. This will be due Thursday, April 6th
Name: ________________________________________
Parent Signature: _______________________________
Your Answer
Correct Answer
Page in RHN 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
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13. How did the government try to solve and address key problems facing the nation after the Civil War?
14. What is meant by reconstruction?
15. Why did the south have greater difficulty than the North in recovering from the Civil War?
16. How did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments expand democracy?

4. Writing
Part 1. Take one of the following roles: wounded veteran, a planter whose plantation has been destroyed, a freed slave living in the south, or an exoduster. Write 2 paragraphs explaining how you feel about the end of the war and the possibilities for the future.
Part 2. Look at the 2 documents below and answer the following accompanying questions. Then, use the documents and your knowledge of history to complete the following writing assignment:
Write a 2paragraph essay about the goals and methods of the Ku Klux Klan, Using specific details, draw a conclusion about whether Document 1 or Document 2 is a more accurate description of the Klan.
Document 1: The “Organization and Principles” of the Ku Klux Klan, stated below, was written in It describes the goals of the Klan.
What does the Klan say is its attitude towards violence?
Document 2: This political cartoon was published in a northern magazine in 1874.
Describe what has happened to the African American family.
This is an institution of chivalry, humanity, mercy, and patriotism; embodying in its genius and its principles all that is chivalric in conduct, noble in sentiment, generous in manhood, and patriotic in purpose; its peculiar objects being: First, to protect the weak, the innocent, and the defenseless from the indignities, wrongs, and outrages of the lawless, the violent, and the brutal; to relieve the injured and oppressed…
Questions To Be Asked Candidates
Are you in favor of a white man's government in this country?

5. Writing
16. How did the government try to solve and address key problems facing the nation after the Civil War?
17. What is meant my reconstruction?
18. Why did the south have grater difficulty than the North in recovering from the Civil War?
19. Take one of the following roles: wounded veteran; a planter whose plantation has been destroyed a freedom. Write 1 paragraph explaining how you feel about the end of the war and the possibilities for the future.
20. How did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments expand democracy?
21. Look at the 2 documents below and answer the following accompanying questions. Then, use the documents and your knowledge of history to complete the following writing assignment:
Write a 2 paragraph essay about the goals and methods of the Ku Klux Klan, Using specific details, draw a conclusion about whether Document 1 or Document 2 goes a more accurate description of the Klan.
Document 2: This political cartoon was published in a northern magazine in 1874.
Describe what has happened to the African American family.
Document 1: The “Organization and Principles” of the Ku Klux Klan, stated below, was written in It describes the goals of the Klan.
What does the Klan say is its attitude towards violence?
This is an institution of chivalry, humanity, mercy, and patriotism; embodying in its genius and its principles all that is chivalric in conduct, noble in sentiment, generous in manhood, and patriotic in purpose; its peculiar objects being: First, to protect the weak, the innocent, and the defenseless from the indignities, wrongs, and outrages of the lawless, the violent, and the brutal; to relieve the injured and oppressed…
Questions To Be Asked Candidates
Are you in favor of a white man's government in this country?