Reconstruction

What act officially ended slavery?

• The Compromise of 1850
• Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
• The Anaconda Plan
• The Ratification of the 13th Amendment

What did the 14th Amendment change?

• Added minimum wage for all working Americans
• Granted citizenship to African Americans
• Allowed foriegners to run for President of the United States
• allowed states to create Jim Crow laws

What did the 15th Amendment change?

• Added minimum wage for all working Americans
• Granted citizenship to African Americans
• Allowed foriegners to run for President of the United States
• Allowed black men the right to vote

Which Reconstruction plan allowed for Confederate states to be divided into military districts?

• Lincoln's Plan
• Johnson's Plan
• The Congressional Plan led by the Radical Republicans
• The Anaconda Plan

This organization supervised the providing of food, clothing, and education to former slaves.

• Freedman's Bureau
• The Radical Republicans
• The F.B.I
• The Secret Service

What was the main purpose of the Ku Klux Klan following the Civil War?

• To end the Civil War
• Improve race relations between whites and blacks
• support the needs of the North following the Civil War
• To prevent former slaves from exercising their new civil rights

Which black politician was told by the Georgia state legislature that while he had a right to vote, he could not hold political office?

• Henry McNeal Turner
• Alexander Stephens
• Frederick Douglass
• Jefferson Davis

What was the main problem with sharecropping and tenant farming for former slaves?

• It allowed them to gain too much power.
• It allowed them to move from plantation to plantation with no loyalty to the landowners who employed them.
• They were never able to get out of debt and always owed money to the landowners.
• Too much of the available farmland was destroyed during the Civil War.

The name for a Northern who came to the South to create buisnesses after the Civil War.

• Carpetbagger
• Scalawag
• Rebel
• Buccaneer

The name for a Southern white who sympathized with blacks and voted for the Republican party.

• Carpetbagger
• Scalawag
• Rebel
• Buccaneer