Just the Facts

President Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction after the Civil War included

• keeping Southern life the same as it was before the Civil War

• placing former Confederate leaders on trial

• destroying the economic and social power of Southern planters

• reuniting the nation as quickly as possible

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 19th Amendment

Which amendment guarantees citizenship and rights to all people born or naturalized in the United States?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 1st Amendment

Which amendment guarantees the right to vote to all citizens regardless of race?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 21st Amendment

What was the name of the agency that was created in 1865 to set up schools, supply food, and solve employment issues for the former slaves?

• the Congress of Racial Equality
• the American Missionary Association
• the Freedmen's Bureau
• the National Advancement of Colored People - NAACP

"Although important strides were made, Reconstruction failed to provide lasting guarantees of the civil rights of the freedmen.” Which evidence best supports this statement

• passage of Jim Crow laws in the latter part of the 19th century
• ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
• refusal of Southern States to allow sharecropping
• passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1866

What best describes Jim Crow laws?

• better opportunities for women

• African Americans gaining full civil and political rights

• discrimination laws focused on Native Americans

• legal segregation of the races in the South

Following the Civil War, a large numbers of former slaves earned a living by becoming sharecroppers. The sharecropping system was like slavery in that

• sharecroppers were given their own land by the government

• Sharecroppers were trapped in a cycle of debt to the white plantation owners

• Sharecroppers were not able to vote

• Sharecroppers were unable to get married

Literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes were enacted by Southern states to

• limit movement of African Americans

• restrict the voting rights of African Americans

• improve the social status of African Americans

• expand educational opportunities for African Americans

What was the result of the "Plessy v Ferguson (1896)" case?

• The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.

• The Supreme Court never made a ruling.

• The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.

• Plessy never took the case to the Supreme Court.