Reconstruction

After the Civil War, the South

• was destroyed and laid in ruins
• kept African Americans in slavery
• was renamed the Confederate States of America
• made sharecropping illegal

The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• guarantees African Americans free speech
• Outlawed slavery in the United States
• gave African Americans the right to vote
• rejoined the South and the North

The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans citizenship
• Gave African Americans the right to vote
• Freed the slaves
• Gave landowners the right to sharecrop

The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans the right to own businesses
• Freed the Slaves
• Gave African American men the right to vote
• Forced African Americans back into slavery

What amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th

Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?

• Nathan Bedford Forrest
• John Wilkes Booth
• Henry Clay
• John Breckinridge

Which of the following was not a part of the Freedman's Bureau?

• Helped reconnecting slaves with their families
• Helped create African American Colleges
• Helped feed slaves
• Forced African Americans to become sharecroppers

What problem did many farmers have under the sharecropping system?        

• They were forced to grow cash crops instead of food.
•  They often were trapped in a cycle or circle of debt.
•  Many sharecroppers were forced to buy goods on credit. 
•    All choices are true.

Laws passed by southern states soon after the Compromise of 1877.  These laws legalized segregation whites and blacks to use separate facilities. 

• Jim Crow Laws
• Black Codes
• Freedman's Bureau
• Reconstruction

The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War. 

• Reconstruction
• Freedman's Bureau
• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws