Reconstruction review

Which of the following was a primary aim of Reconstruction?

• Distributing aid to northern families

• Readmitting Confederate states to the Union

• Building up America's military strength

• Making sure the South paid for all the damage done in the war

The 14th Amendment gave citizenship rights to all freedmen. This meant they would:

• Be allowed to create their own country

• Receive a free college education

• Be granted 40 acres of land

• Receive equal protection under the law

A _______ is most likely to have been called a carpetbagger.

• KKK member

• Northern businessman

• Liberated slave

• Former Confederate soldier

Which statement best summarizes Radical Republicans' strategy for reforming the South?

• Give Southern leaders the freedom to implement the laws as they see fit

• Compromise with Southern leaders, but be firm

• Pass federal laws that force changes on Southern society

• Threaten the South with another war if it refuses to change

Poll taxes effectively worked against:

• Black Codes

• The Fourteenth Amendment

• Literacy tests

• Jim Crow Laws

The 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments to the Constitution dealt primarily with--

• the rights of workers to form labor unions

• protecting the rights of women

• The rights of formerly enslaved people

• limiting the rights of former Confederate leaders

What amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th

The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans the right to own businesses
• Freed the Slaves
• Gave African Americans the right to vote
• Forced African Americans back into slavery

The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans citizenship
• Gave African Americans the right to vote
• Freed the slaves
• Gave landowners the right to sharecrop

Which of the following was not a goal of Reconstruction?

• Reunite the North and the South
• Rebuild the South
• Develop the system of sharecropping
• Determine what to do with African Americans