Reconstruction

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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These were laws that made it illegal for African Americans to live or work in certain areas and allowed whites to arrest African Americans who were not working.  Once arrested they would be forcibly assigned to work for white landowners. 

• Freedman's Bureau Laws
• Reconstruction Acts
• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws

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

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

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.

What organization was designed to intimidate former slaves and anyone who supported former slaves?

• Ku Klux Klan
• Freedmen s Bureau 
• Black Codes

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

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

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

What best describes the failure of the 15th Amendment?

• Poll taxes and literacy tests kept African Americans from voting
• Schools were segregated
• Employers discriminated
• The KKK gained power

What organization established education, health care and training in the South for newly freed African Americans?

• Ku Klux Klan
• Radical Republican
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Carpetbaggers