5.1-2Effects of Reconstruction

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution gave rights and freedom to ________________.

• women

• Native Americans

• African Americans

• Chinese Americans

Why was the Freedmen’s Bureau established?

• to rebuild churches and homes

• to take away land from the rich and give it to the poor

• provide funds to build plantations

• to help former slaves after the war

How were African Americans’ lives changed after the Civil War?

• They were forced to move to Kansas.

• They had to sign pledges to obey the law.

• They were restricted by what they could or could not do

• They were not affected.

What was one of the major differences between a sharecropper and a slave?

• There was no difference.

• Sharecroppers were very wealthy.

• Sharecroppers were paid in shares for the work they did on the farm.

• Sharecroppers were paid in gold.

How did the 13th Amendment change life in America?

• There was no more slavery.

• Women could vote.

• Southerners could no longer own plantations.

• Carpetbaggers were banned in the South.

A group of people who terrorized the newly freed slaves were _______________.

• members of the Ku Klux Klan

• northern carpetbaggers

• southern scalawags

• northern soldiers

What was the primary effect of the Thirteenth Amendment?

• It ensured the right to vote to women.

• It outlawed slavery in every state.

• It declared that Confederate military leaders could not hold office.

• It prohibited unreasonable searches and seizures.

The idea that all persons born in the United States would receive equal protection under the law is expressed in what?

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Bill of Rights

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Declaration of Independence

The 15th Amendment declared what?

• slavery is outlawed in the United States

• Congress shall have the power to collect income taxes

• former slaves and people of color have the right to vote

• cruel and unusual punishment is outlawed

Hoping to preserve the way of life from before the Civil War, some Southerners organized to prevent the expansion of rights to African Americans. What was this secret organization?

• Old Confederates

• Radical Republicans

• Scalawags

• Ku Klux Klan