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Review Questions for 5th Grade Social Studies
Week 1
Day 1 | MONDAY
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Question:
Answer:
1.
What was the standard
for rejoining the Union
under Lincoln’s plan for
Reconstruction?
A state would abolish slavery
and ten percent of voters would
take a loyalty oath.
2.
What did Lincoln hope
to accomplish with his
Reconstruction Plan?
The Union would be reunited in a
fair, quick manner without the
use of military force.
3.
How did Johnson’s
Reconstruction Plan
differ from Lincoln’s?
He wanted to punish the Southern
elite by making plantation owners
ask for a Presidential pardon.
4.
How did most southerners
feel about African Americans
after the Civil War?
They were willing to recognize
the end to slavery, but they didn’t
want African Americans to have
the same rights as they did.
What did most African
Americans want during
Reconstruction?
They wanted to reunite their
families and set up communities
where they could live and work as
citizens. They wanted to improve
the education for their children.
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Review Questions for 5th Grade Social Studies
Week 1
Day 2 | TUESDAY
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Question:
Answer:
1.
What was the primary
effect of the Thirteenth
Amendment?
It outlawed slavery in every state.
It gave African Americans citizenship
and protection of their rights.
2.
What did the 14th
Amendment accomplish?
3.
The 15th Amendment
declared what?
Former slaves and people of
color have the right to vote.
4.
What federal agency was
established to help protect
the rights of slaves and help
them find jobs and homes?
Freedmen’s Bureau
How did Southerners
react to the 13th, 14, and
15th amendments?
Since Southerners were not ready
to accept African Americans as
equals, they began passing laws
called Black Codes which limited
the former slaves’ rights.
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Review Questions for 5th Grade Social Studies
Week 1
Day 3 | WEDNESDAY
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Question:
Answer:
1.
What often happened
to African Americans who
left the plantation to find
a better life?
They had to return to the
plantations because they were
not able to make a life for
themselves on their own.
2.
Where did most African
Americans live right after
the Civil War?
They lived in the South and did
not start moving to the North
and West until late 1800’s and
early 1900’s.
3.
What terrorist group
of whites was formed to
intimidate Blacks so they
would not stand up for
their rights as citizens?
The Ku Klux Klan
During Reconstruction,
what was its name of the
agency that built schools
and hospitals to help serve
the needs of former slaves?
The Freedmen's Bureau
What was the agreement
former slaves made with
white landowners to farm
the land for a share of the
profit made from the crop?
sharecropping
4.
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Review Questions for 5th Grade Social Studies
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Day 4 | THURSDAY
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Question:
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What was the term used to
call Northerners who came to
the South to take advantage
of Reconstruction policies?
Carpetbaggers
2.
What was the promise
made to freed slaves after
the Civil War that was not
kept by the government?
African Americans were promised
“40 Acres and a mule” to help
them get established as new
citizens of the U.S.
3.
Why did sharecropping
become common after
the Civil War?
Many people needed land to
farm in order to make a living.
This benefited the plantation owner
and the sharecropper.
4.
Why didn’t
sharecropping work?
The sharecroppers did not make
enough money from their portion
of the crop to pay their bills.
5.
What did Southerners
call other Southerners
who cooperated with the
federal government?
Scalawags
Why did many white
farmers leave the farms
and seek work in factories?
Cotton depleted the soil so it
would no longer grow. The boll
weevil also ruined the cotton crops,
so it was no longer profitable.
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Review Questions for 5th Grade Social Studies
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Day 5 | FRIDAY
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Question:
Answer:
1.
What was the purpose of
Jim Crow laws and poll taxes?
To keep African Americans from
having any rights as citizens
2.
What did the Black Code
laws intended to do ?
Continue segregation in
some Southern states
3.
What was the goal of
the Ku Klux Klan?
To use intimidation, violence
and voter fraud to keep African
Americans from exercising their
rights under the 13th, 14th and
15th Amendments
4.
What things did the
Jim Crow laws make
mandatory?
Separate schools, housing, and
seating in theaters and on trains
What was the “Grandfather
Clause” of the Jim Crow laws?
It was part of the law that was
passed that said anyone who couldn’t
read, couldn’t vote. Whites who
couldn’t read got around this by
adding to the law that if your
grandfather could read, then
you could vote.
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