Name: __________________

Chapter 12 Exam Period: ____

A. IDENTIFYING KEY TERMS, PEOPLE,

AND PLACES
Complete each sentence in Column I by writing the letter of the correct term
from Column II in each blank. You will not use all the terms.

_____ 1. As part of his Reconstruction policy, Lincoln

refused
to _____ Confederate military leaders.
_____ 2. The _____ stated that everyone born or
naturalized in
the United States was a citizen and was entitled to
equal protection of the law.
_____ 3. After President Johnson tried to fire his
Secretary of
War, the House of Representatives voted to _____
him.

Column II
a. pardon
b. impeach
c. Reconstruction
d. carpetbagger
e. scalawag
f. sharecropper
g. infrastructure
h. tenant farmer
i. Fourteenth Amendment
j. Fifteenth Amendments

_____ 4. With the ratification of the _____, African

American
males gained the right to vote.
_____ 5. Southerners called a northern Republican
who
moved to the South following the Civil War a(n)
_____.
_____ 6. A _____ grows a crop on land owned by someone
else and gives the landowner part of the annual
yield.
_____ 7. A _____ rents the land on which he or she grows crops.
_____ 8. The war-torn South had to rebuild its _____, which
included its transportation and communication systems.

B. IDENTIFYING MAIN IDEAS

Write the letter of the correct ending in the blank provided.
_____ 9. The Freedmens Bureau succeeded in
a. redistributing formerly white-owned land to black southerners.
b. keeping ex-Confederate supporters out of office.
c. providing clothing, medical care, food, and education to many people.
d. electing African Americans to southern state governments.
_____ 10. Southern state governments restricted the rights of former slaves
by
a. passing black codes.
b. holding constitutional conventions.

c. refusing to pay war debts.

d. refusing to pass the Thirteenth Amendment.
_____ 11. The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to
a. prevent African Americans from exercising their rights.
b. gain control of state legislatures.
c. restore the Confederacy.
d. improve conditions for poor whites
_____ 12. After Rutherford B. Hayes became President in 1877, he
a. ended corruption in government.
b. removed federal troops from the South.
c. promised to regulate the railroads.
d. pledged to promote womens rights.
_____ 13. The Radical Republicans opposed President Lincolns Reconstruction
plan, saying
it was too
a. harsh on the South. c. generous to the freed people.
b. lenient on the South. d. difficult to carry out.
_____ 14. In their Reconstruction policies, both President Lincoln and
President Johnson
insisted upon
a. sworn statements of allegiance from a majority of citizens.
b. immediate elections in all Southern states.
c. Southern approval of the Thirteenth Amendment.
d. a fair redistribution of land.

C. INTERPRETING A CARTOON
Use the cartoon to answer questions 2122.
Give answers on the lines provided.
19. According to the cartoonist, what was
the goal of the Ku Klux Klan?
________________________________
________________________________
________________________________
20. What is one action the KKK took to
make the lives of African Americans
worse than slavery?
______________________________
______________________________
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D. Lincoln Assassination Answer the following questions in

short answers (do not need complete sentences)
21. Who killed Abe Lincoln?___________________________________________________
22. Give the name of the place where Lincoln was
shot._________________________________________
23. Give the name of the government official that was stabbed in the
face.___________________________
24. Give the last names of the 4 people hung for the incidents.
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________

E. Reconstruction Plans Using the bolded words in the word

bank fill in each of the boxes with the correct answer.

WORD BANK:
Most Lenient
10% Plan
Johnsons Plan
Lincolns Plan
Harshest
Denied Pardons to southerners who had killed African American
war prisoners allowed former Confederate leaders to hold
government positions
Iron Clad Oath

Name

Wade-Davis Act

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