Reconstruction: Great American Facts Set 1

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 19th Amendment

Which amendment guarantees citizenship and rights to all people born or naturalized in the United States?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 1st Amendment

Which amendment guarantees the right to vote to all citizens regardless of race?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 21st Amendment

When did Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War?

• 12/7/1941
• 10/29/1929
• 4/9/1865
• 11/9/1989

Which newspaper headline would have appeared during the Reconstruction Period after the Civil War?

• “Jim Crow Laws End”
• “Former Slaves Made Citizens”
• “Supreme Court Issues Dred Scott Decision”
• “Emancipation Proclamation Issued”

"Although important strides were made, Reconstruction failed to provide lasting guarantees of the civil rights of the freedmen.” Which evidence best supports this statement

• passage of Jim Crow laws in the latter part of the 19th century
• ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
• refusal of Southern States to allow sharecropping
• passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1866

From (1915-1970), which factor was the major cause of the migration of many African Americans to the North?

• the start of the Harlem Renaissance
• increased job opportunities in Northern cities
• laws passed in Northern States to end racial discrimination
• Federal Government job-training programs

Which of the following best describes the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• It was the first large-scale federal welfare program in the U.S., assisting both blacks and whites.
• Established black schools and enforced contracts between freedpeople and landowners.
• It distributed "forty acres and a mule" to the freedpeople
• It distributed rations and established hospitals

In the ten years following the Civil War, a large numbers of former slaves earned a living by becoming

• conductors on the Underground Railroad
• workers in Northern factories
• sharecroppers on Southern farms
• gold miners in California

A major reason the Radical Republicans opposed President Abraham Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan was that his plan

• demanded payments from the South that would have damaged its economy
• postponed the readmission of Southern States into the Union for many years
• granted too many rights to formerly enslaved persons
• offered amnesty to nearly all Confederates who would swear allegiance to the United States