Reconstruction

During Reconstruction the South was under Military rule

• True
• False

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

Which of the following was not a part of the Freedman's Bureau?

• Helped reconnecting slaves with their families
• Helped create African American Colleges
• Helped feed slaves
• Forced African Americans to become sharecroppers

What group in Congress felt that Lincoln's plan was too lenient?

• Deciduous Democrats

• Radical Republicans

• Wistful Whigs

• Fancy Federalists

What problem did many farmers have under the sharecropping system?        

• They were forced to grow cash crops instead of food.
•  They often were trapped in a cycle or circle of debt.
•  Many sharecroppers were forced to buy goods on credit. 
•    All choices are true.

Northerners who went south after the Civil War to make large profits from the destruction in the south were called

• Scalawags
• Ku Klux Klan
• Carpetbaggers
• Sharecroppers

These laws passed by the southern states during Reconstruction legalized African-Americans to use separate facilities.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Freedman's Bureau

• Reconstruction

The process of the South rejoining the Union is called ______.

• Reconstruction

• Freedman's Bureau

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws