Reconstruction American History

What were the affects of the Black Codes in the South? Multi select!

• They implemented poll taxes, literacy tests, and segregation laws

• They implemented laws to enhance the newly freedmen

• They inserted ideas like sharecropping to keep newly freedmen in poverty

• None of the above

After the Civil War, Southern state legislatures attempted to restrict the rights of formerly newly freedmen by?

• Passing the Black Codes

• Passing the 15th Amendment

• Supporting the Radical Republican Goals

• Strengthen the Freedmen's Bureau

How did the Freedmen's Bureau impact-free blacks?

• Helped with jobs

• Helped with housing

• Helped with education

• All of the above

How did the Ku Klux Klan affect Reconstruction?

• They went head to head against the newly freed blacks for jobs

• They intimidated the newly freed blacks to by using torture and lynchings

• They helped provide housing for future Blacks

• They forced Andrew Johnson to push different laws against the Blacks

How did Sharecropping affect the newly freedmen in a negative way

• They were given land from former southern plantation owners

• They were given the wrong tools to survive

• They were given land that was not able to farm on from the Civil War

• The system of sharecropping kept them in a cycle of poverty

How did the 14th amendment impact Civil Rights?

• It gave the newly freedmen the right to vote

• It made slavery illegal and freed all slaves in the United States

• It made it so they were granted citizenship and equal protection

• It gave newly freed women the right to vote

How did the 13th amendment impact Civil Rights?

• It gave the newly freedmen the right to vote

• It made slavery illegal and freed all slave in the United States

• It made it so they were granted citizenship and equal protection

• It gave newly freed women the right to vote

How did the 15th amendment impact Civil Rights?

• It gave the newly freedmen the right to vote

• It made slavery illegal and freed all slave in the United States

• It made it so they were granted citizenship and equal protection

• It gave newly freed women the right to vote

How did the Radical Republicans make an impact on Reconstruction

• They passed harsh legislation against newly freedmen

• They decided to vote against all the legislation used to help newly freedmen

• They helped pass several different laws to help newly freedmen

• None of the above

How did Andrew Johnson impact Reconstruction?

• He vetoed against legislation to help newly freedmen

• He was lenient towards the former Confederate states

• He allowed the Southern states to use Black Codes

• All of the above