Reconstruction

During the Reconstruction Era many Radical Republicans passed legislative reforms that were designed to --

• support the passage of the black codes in the former Confederate states

• actively resist the Wade-Davis Bill that granted equal rights to African Americans

• give economic opportunities and political rights to the newly freed slaves

• create lenient measures to make it easy for the southern states to rejoin the Union

Following the 13th Amendment many Southern state governments countered by enacting black codes. The Radical Republicans in Congress responded to these black codes with the passage of the --

• Civil Rights Acts of 1866

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Compromise of 1870

• Morill Act

Southern states, angered by the passage of the 13th Amendment, passed black codes which were designed to --

• expand suffrage rights to all men

• restrict the freedoms of the African Americans

• make the South pay former slaves a decent wage

• allow the freedmen to get a free public education

Which of the quotes would have been said by a Radical Republican in response to the black codes?

• "This finally brings the war to a close by establishing a plan for the equal treatment of the former slaves."

• "This goes against everything that the war was fought for and undermines the actions of the federal government."

• "This allows for the newly freed African Americans to have an economic opportunity to get off of the plantations."

• "This creates the ability for the freedmen to be incorporated into society as the equal of the white man."

The Radical Republicans passed the Reconstruction Amendments; the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments that were designed to --

• grant citizenship rights to Native Americans

• enforce the Compromise of 1877

• make former slaves equal to white citizens

• allow for the capture and return of fugitive slaves

The election of __________ finally provided African Americans in the south with proof of the enforcement of the 15th Amendment.

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Dred Scott

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Frederick Douglass

"The time has passed for argument. Nothing more need be said. For a long time it has been clear that colored persons must be senators."

-Charles Sumner, from his debate on the Senate Floor

The quote from Sumner above is explaining the --

• reasons for passing of the black codes

• justification for the 13th amendment

• election of Hiram Rhodes Revels

• reasons against integration in the South

During the Reconstruction Era the Federal government established several programs to assist the newly freed slaves in the South. Southern state governments resented these programs and passed black codes that were designed to --

• require that all African Americans children attend the free, public schools

• make it illegal for slave owners to go to the North to search for their runaway

• control their former slaves by limiting their rights and economic opportunities

• ratify the amendments in the Constitution that gave former slaves equal rights

As the new freedmen in the South looked for a way to make a living, their former owners needed workers to farm their land. That led to the development of the --

• immigration of workers to the South

• end of the Reconstruction period in the South

• system of shrecropping

• abolishment of the institution of slavery

Which of the following problems were faced by African Americans in the South as a result of the passage of the black codes?

• Forced to work in the labor economy under the sharecropping system

• Creation of a separate public education system for African American children

• Establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau to aid the former slaves adjust to their freedom.

• Ratification of the 14th amendment to guarantee civil rights to all people.