Reconstruction Review

Which group of people wanted to keep their old way of life during Reconstruction?

• Congress
• carpetbaggers
• Southern whites
• African Americans

Which person decided that the Southern states could rejoin the Union once they ratified the Thirteenth Amendment and pledged their loyalty?

• President Johnson
• President Linconl
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Robert E. Lee

How did the Thirteenth Amendment change the lives of African Americans?

• They could no longer be enslaved.
• They became citizens.
• They were allowed to vote.
• They were given land.

In 1866, Congress passed the Freedmen's Bureau Act. What was the main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• to give freedmen their own homes
• to help African Americans shift from slavery to freedom
• to give freemen $1,000 each
• to give African America women the right to vote

Which best describes how African Americans' civil rights were affected during Reconstruction?

• African Americans throughout the nation received full civil rights.
• African Americans throughout the United States could vote.
• African Americans won some rights but still did not have as many as whites did.
• African Americans lost all the rights they won during the Civil War.

What is one way African Americans and poor whites had a similar experience during Reconstruction?

• Both groups were freed from slavery.
• Both groups became citizens under law.
• Both groups were allowed to buy land.
• Both groups often had to be sharecroppers.

Which was not a method used by the Ku Klux Klan to limit the rights of African Americans?

• registering voters
• conducting voter fraud
• lynching people
• burning crosses

Which of the following were laws passed during Reconstruction that limited African Americans' rights?

• slave codes
• black codes
• Jim Crow laws
• civil rights acts

Why did President Lincoln's Reconstruction policy change soon after he started it?

• Vice President Johnson was assassinated.
• President Lincoln was assassinated.
• Congress did not agree with the plan.
• Southerners did not agree with the plan.

How did Congress's Reconstruction plan differ from what most Southern whites wanted?

• Congress wanted to restrict the rights of African Americans
• Congress did not want the South to rejoin the Union.
• Congress didn't want the military to help Southern whites.
• Congress wanted to give African Americans more basic rights.