Reconstruction

What did the 13th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal

• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights

• gave black men the right to vote

• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What did the 14th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What did the 15th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What was Reconstruction?

• equal treatment for all people
• the forced separation of races
• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
• the period of time after the Civil War

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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Northerners who migrated to the mostly destroyed post-war south to make large profits and/or help freedmen were known as

• Scalawags
• Ku Klux Klan
• Carpetbaggers
• Sharecroppers

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