Reconstruction 3 (Life for Freed Slaves)

Which of the following was NOT an example of a black code passed during Reconstruction?

• Work contracts with specific language harmful to workers
• No owning of weapons or alcohol
• No mixed race marriages
• Total ban on owning property

Black codes in the South would later change into what type of discrimination laws?

• Freedmen Laws
• Jim Crow Laws
• Anti-Black Laws
• Civil Rights Laws

Which organization was created to help provide food, clothes, education, & land to freed slaves after the Civil War?

• American Red Cross
• Ku Klux Klan
• Freedman's Bureau
• Union League

The biggest success of the Freedman's Bureau came in which area?

• Providing 40 acres & a mule for EVERY freed slave
• Educating a group of people who had never been educated
• Handing out food through soup kitchens & bread lines
• Changing racial attitudes

Southerners used all of these methods to stop blacks from voting during Reconstruction EXCEPT

• Intimidation from the KKK
• Poll taxes
• Literacy tests
• An amendment to the Constitution

Carpetbaggers were

• Southerners who supported Republican Reconstruction policies
• Northerners who came to the South during Reconstruction
• Supporters of KKK violence & intimidation
• Workers with the Freedman's Bureau

Scalawags were

• Southerners who supported Republican Reconstruction policies
• Northerners who came to the South during Reconstruction
• Supporters of KKK violence & intimidation
• Workers with the Freedman's Bureau

Which of the following was NOT a positive contribution of the Radical Republican Reconstruction governments in the South?

• New schools for black citizens
• Improved property rights for women
• Building of many new public works
• Passage of the Enforcement Acts

The original purpose of the Ku Klux Klan was to

• kill as many freed slaves as possible
• Stop black citizens & carpetbaggers from voting
• Ignite the Civil War all over again
• Prove that the South had never lost the Civil War

Congress tried to stop the violence of the KKK by passing a series of laws. These laws were called

• Military Reconstruction Act
• 13th Amendment
• Tenure of Office Act
• Enforcement Acts