Unit 6, Section 4

Multiple Choice

What three amendments are considered the Reconstruction Amendments?

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd

• 13th, 14th, 15th

• 25th, 26th, 27th

• 4th, 5th, 6th

Match

Match the following Reconstruction Amendments

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Abolished slavery

Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US

Granted African American men the right to vote

• Abolished slavery

• Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US

• Granted African American men the right to vote

Multiple Choice

Southern laws meant to keep African-Americans socially and politically inferior to whites were called...

• Black codes

• Slave codes

• Reconstruction Amendments

• Poll taxes

Multiple Choice

The US government created what organization to help former slaves and poor whites?

• Bureau of Parks and Recreation

• Free Food Bureau

• Jobs and Education Bureau

• Freedman's Bureau

Multiple Choice

System of farming where farmers (previous slaves) gave part of their crop to pay for the land they rented

• Family-Farming

• Sharecropping

• Groupcropping

• Split-Farming

Multiple Choice

The Freedmen’s Bureau succeeded in

• electing African Americans to southern state governments.

• keeping ex-Confederate supporters out of office.

• redistributing formerly white-owned land to black southerners.

• providing clothing, medical care, food, and education to many freed people.

Multiple Choice

The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction was to

• prevent African Americans from exercising their rights.

• gain control of state legislatures.

• restore the Confederacy.

• improve conditions for poor whites.

Multiple Choice

What compromise settled the intensely debated Election of 1876: Hayes vs Tilden and formally ended Reconstruction in the south with Hayes becoming president?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1877

• Compromise of 1876

Multiple Choice

As white southerners regained control of state governments, they began to

• refuse to pay war debts.

• join the Republican Party.

• reverse Reconstruction era reforms.

• compensate former slaves.

Multiple Choice

Reconstruction officially came to an end when

• President Johnson was impeached.

• federal troops were removed from the South.

• the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified.

• the Freedmen’s Bureau was dismantled.

Multiple Choice

What are the Jim Crow Laws?

• provided an absolute 10-year halt on Chinese labor immigration

• Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states after Reconstruction

• Laws passed in southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans

• to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit

Multiple Choice

What was one of the results of Plessy v. Ferguson?

• The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.

• The Supreme Court never made a ruling.

• The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.

• The Supreme Court ruled slaves as property, not citizens.

Multiple Choice

The Plessy v. Ferguson case had what impact on the U.S.?

• It legalized segregation laws throughout the U.S.

• It made segregation laws illegal throughout the U.S.

• It created more equality

• It led to the creation of the KKK.

Multiple Choice

What famous phrase came out of the Plessy v. Ferguson case?

• "Separate but equal"

• "Give me liberty or give me death."

• "By any means necessary"

• "Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness"

Multiple Choice

Northerners who migrated to the mostly destroyed post-war South to make large profits and/or help freedmen were known as

• Scalawags

• Ku Klux Klan

• Carpetbaggers

• Sharecroppers

Multiple Choice

Who was Booker T. Washington?

• Believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans and founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP

• Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education; accepted social segregation

• provided an absolute 10-year halt on Chinese labor immigration

• Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states after Reconstruction

Multiple Choice

Black Codes are ________________ Reconstruction. Jim Crow Laws are ________________ Reconstruction.

• before; during

• after; before

• during; after

• after; during

Multiple Choice

Who is W.E.B. DuBois?

• Believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans and founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP

• Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education; accepted social segregation

• provided an absolute 10-year halt on Chinese labor immigration

• Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states after Reconstruction

Multiple Choice

What is the NAACP?

• Group formed by W. E. B. DuBois and others in 1909 to pursue the goals of economic, educational, and social equality for African Americans; inspired by the Niagara Movement.

• Forced separation of people of different races in public places

• Agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people in the South.

• Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states after Reconstruction

Match

Match the following

• Freedmen´s Bureau

• Reconstruction

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Sharecropping

Agency established by Congress to help former slaves in the South

Period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War

African American Citizenship

Gave African Americans males right to vote

Landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in exchange for a portion of their crops

• Agency established by Congress to help former slaves in the South

• Period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War

• African American Citizenship

• Gave African Americans males right to vote

• Landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in exchange for a portion of their crops

Multiple Choice

A white southerner who supported the North during Reconstruction

• reconstructor

• Klan member

• Scalawag

• Carpetbagger

Multiple Choice

What did Republicans gain from the Compromise of 1877?

• Radical Republicans retained control of Congress.

• Federal aid to the South was controlled by Republicans.

• Republicans received powerful Cabinet positions.

• Rutherford B. Hayes became President.