Black Codes, Jim Crow, and Reconstruction

Which term was used by Southerners to describe people that moved south to make money by taking advantage of the war-torn economy?

• scalawags
• sharecroppers
• social elite
• carpetbaggers

Which of the following would be a likely topic at a Freedmen's Convention held in 1867?

• Escaping to freedom on the Underground Railroad
• purchasing African slaves at low prices
• sharecropping relationships
• Joining the KKK in your area

Following the Civil War, most of the people who became sharecroppers were:

• former plantation owners.
• former Union soldiers.
• former Confederate soldiers.
• former slaves.

The Ku Klux Klan often resorted to violence to accomplish its goal. This violence was usually designed to:

• protect personal property.
• retaliate against previous acts of violence.
• intimidate the victims.
• prevent the spread of more violence.

After Abraham Lincoln's assassination, who took over the presidency and continued Reconstruction?

• Ulysses S. Grant
• Robert E. Lee
• Andrew Johnson
• Rutherford B. Hayes

Which of the following exclusion tactics did Southern blacks NOT face when attempting to vote?

• picture identification
• literacy test
• grandfather clause
• poll tax

During Reconstruction, which of the following did the Southern states enact in order to restrict the rights of the freedmen?

• Slave Codes
• Civil Rights Laws
• Freedman's Bureau Bill
• Black Codes

Which of the following amendments recognized African American citizenship and offered equal protection under the law?

• First Amendment
• Fourteenth Amendment
• Twentieth Amendment
• Fifteenth Amendement

During Reconstruction, which organization oversaw labor contracts, set up schools and helped freed slaves and poor whites find jobs?

• Freedman's Bureau
• Republican Party
• Ku Klux Klan
• United States Army

What abolished slavery in the United States? 

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amdendment
• 15th Amendment
• Ten Percent Laws