Reconstruction Ultimate Test Review

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

Rutherford B. 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

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 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

Laws that required the African-Americans be separated from white in public places are...

• Jim Crow Laws

• Purple Codes

• Grandfather Codes

• Integration Laws

Why did sharecroppers remain poor?

• The South flooded during Reconstrucion
• They owed money to the landowners, never getting out of debt
• The sun never shone on crops
• Animals ate all the crops

Schools in the south to educate freedmen were set up by the ______________

• Union Army

• Special Field Order 15

• Freedmen's Bureau