Reconstruction

The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• guarantees African Americans free speech
• Outlawed slavery in the United States
• gave African Americans the right to vote
• rejoined the South and the North

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

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 organization put in place after the Civil War to provide food, clothing, health care and education in the South was known as:

• The Civil Rights Committee
• The Freedmen's Bureau
• The Welfare Committee
• The Salvation Army

During Reconstruction, most former Confederate states

• were placed under military rule for a time
• were readmitted into the Union, but only after promising to end slavery within 10 years
• given full representation in Congress without issue
• supported the immediate end of slavery throughout the U.S.

Reconstruction was the process of

• rebuilding the South after the Civil War
• creating land zones for freedmen after the Civil War
• instituting Black Codes for former slaves
• eliminating the plantation economy in the South

In the late 1800s, what strategy was used by landowners in the South to maintain  labor forces for their farms?

• using seasonal migrant workers to harvest and plant crops
• hiring immigrants who had been farmers in their home countries
• selling parts of their lands to investors from northern states
• entering into sharecropping agreements with former slaves

Many southern states passed laws after the Compromise of 1877.  The laws that legalized the segregation of whites and blacks were called

• Jim Crow Laws
• Black Codes
• Freedman's Bureau
• Reconstruction

System of farming where plantation owners would lend former slaves a place to live in exchange for farming crops

• Sharecropping
• Freedmen's Bureua
• Jim Crow Laws
• Slavery

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