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Grade 5 Unit 6 Lesson 6 Quiz

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Grade: 5

1. What did the Freedmen’s Bureau do?

a. helped African Americans campaign for political office
b. provided free transportation to the Western territories
c. provided food, shelter, jobs, and medical care for African Americans and whites
d. created farming communities for former plantation owners

2. What did Southerners call Northerners who moved to the South to start businesses after the Civil War?

a. carpetbaggers
b. sharecroppers
c. Freedman’s Bureau
d. Yankee Doodles

3. Which of the following groups formed to prevent African Americans from gaining equal rights?

a. Freedmen’s Bureau
b. sharecroppers
c. the Jim Crow society
d. the Ku Klux Klan

4. What campaign promise did Rutherford B. Hayes make to get elected?

a. to punish all Confederate soldiers
b. to remove all Union troops from the South
c. to complete Reconstruction
d. to outlaw the black codes

5. What did the Supreme Court have to say about segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson?

a. it was unconstitutional
b. “separate but equal” was Constitutional
c. Jim Crow laws were illegal
d. that states should decide whether to segregate