Reconstruction Review

The 13th amendment to the Constitution was the first of the "Reconstruction Amendments," What was the purpose of this amendment?

• to give women the right to vote
• to allow the Confederate States to re-enter the Union
• to give African Americans the right to vote
• to abolish slavery

Name the famous speech that was written by Lincoln stating that the Civil war was to preserve a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" _________________________

• Emancipation Proclamation 
• Gettysburg Address
• reconstruction
• sharecropping

A Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to help with reconstruction was known as a  ______________________

• carpetbagger
• slave
• sharecropper
• segregation 

The 14th amendment to the Constitution was the second of the "Reconstruction Amendments." What was the purpose of this amendment?

• to give African Americans the right to vote
• to give all American citizens equal protection under the law
• to abolish slavery
• 
  to officially terminate the government of the Confederate States of America

The primary goal of the Freedman's Bureau was to:  

• prevent the African American population from voting in federal elections.
• establish the "sharecropping" system to make sure that white farmers continued to employ African Americans.
• provide newly freed slaves with food, shelter, work, and education.
• to enforce "Black Codes," or laws that treated African Americans as second-class citizens

Who wanted to readmit states to the Union when 10% of the voters took an oath of allegiance?

• Andrew Johnson
• Andrew Jackson
• Abraham Lincoln
• The Radical Republicans

This plan threw out the governments of any state who refused to ratify the 14th amendment. It also divided the South into 5 military districts controlled by a General and Federal troops to protect freed slaves

• Lincoln's Plan
• Johnson's Plan
• Radical Republicans
• Wade-Davis Bill

These were laws that made it illegal for African Americans to live or work in certain areas and allowed whites to arrest African Americans who were not working.  Once arrested they would be forced to work for white landowners. 

• Freedman's Bureau
• Reconstruction
• Black Codes
• 14th Amendment

Scalawags were

• Southern White Republicans
• Southern Democrats
• Northerners who moved south
• Johnson supporters

The 15th amendment to the Constitution was the last of the "Reconstruction Amendments," and it was ratified in 1870.  What was the purpose of this amendment?

• to give African Americans the right to vot
• to establish a federal income tax
• to give women the right to vote
• to officially end the "Reconstruction Era"