Reconstruction

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 19th

The 15th amendment gave the right to vote to

• All African Americans
• African American men
• Native Americans
• White Women

Southern whites passed laws restricting the rights of African Americans called--

• Black codes
• Slave Laws
• Confederate Rights
• Merica Laws

The white terrorist group that attacked Blacks and white republicans to restore Democratic control in the South was the--

• Kappa Kappa Kappa
• Redeemers
• Pure Race Fraternity 
• Ku Klux Klan

Hayes agreed to remove federal troops from the South in order to win the Presidency in the Election of 1876. This--

• started Reconstruction
• got him impeached
• made Southern Democrats angry
• ended Reconstruction

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

Overall, Reconstruction--

• brought changes to the Constitution that were difficult to encorce
• was a complete success
• was a complete failure
• was fully embraced by the South

The US government created what organization to help former slaves and poor whites?

• Bureau of Parks and Recreation
• Free Food Bureau
• Jobs and Education Bureau
• Freedman's Bureau

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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

Which of the following is true about sharecropping

• Sharecropping favored the freeedmen.

• Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping

• Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty

• Many state governments offered loan for sharecropping farmers.