Topic Review: Reconstruction
Quiz by Quizalize - Grade 8 Social Studies
Grade 8
Social Studies (2018)
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- Q1The period after the Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated in the Union and the South worked to rebuild their economy is called-ReconstructionRebirthReformSectionalism30s113.20.9.C
- Q2Laws that limited the rights of free blacksDawes ActRestrictions on RightsBlack CodesSlave Codes30s113.20.9.C
- Q3Amendment that declared all slaves free13th Amendment12th Amendment14th Amendment15th Amendment30s113.20.9.A
- Q4Amendment that declared African Americans to be citizens13th Amendment15th Amendment12th Amendment14th Amendment30s113.20.9.A
- Q5Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote12th Amendment15th Amendment13th Amendment14th Amendment30s113.20.9.A
- Q6Established at the end of Reconstruction as a resource to help former slaves get medical care, education, food, and shelterBlack CodesFreedmen's BureauDawes ActHomestead Act30s113.20.9.A
- Q7Land grant that offered free land to Native Americans who would "adopt the white way of life."Dawes ActHomestead ActStamp ActMorrill Act30s113.20.9.A
- Q8Land grant that offered 160 acres of land to anyone who promised to work the land for 5 yearsStamp ActMorrill ActHomestead ActDawes Act30s113.20.9.A
- Q91st African American elected to the US CongressWilliam CarneyWentworth CheswellHiram Rhodes RevelsCrispus Attucks30s113.20.9.B
- Q10Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was calledLincoln Plan10% Plan13th AmendmentWade-Davis Bill30s113.20.9.A
- Q11Johnson's response to the many Reconstruction laws passed by Republicans in Congress was to-change them & send them back to Congresssign them into lawignore themveto the vast majority of them30s113.20.9.C
- Q12What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debtLandowners sold property to pay wages to former slavesAgricultural workers organized labor unionsMany agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses30s113.20.9.C
- Q13Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska ActThe Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil WarThe opposition by southern states to the Emancipation ProclamationThe positions taken in the Know-Nothing Party platform30s113.20.9.A
- Q14What was one of President Lincoln's first major goals for Reconstruction?punish southern states for secedingreunify the nationredistribute the South's landgrant African Americans full citizenship30s113.20.9.A
- Q15Which of the following best reflects the attitude of the Radical Republicans toward Reconstruction?The South should be punishedThe South should be forgivenThe South should be left aloneThe South should pay huge fines30s113.20.9.A