Reconstruction Unit 6 SS8H6

By ratifying the 14th Amendment, the freed slaves were able to gain...

• US citizenship

• Free land from former plantation owners

• Admission into the US Army

Which Reconstruction plan required states to have 10% population vote an oath of loyalty and for the states to ratify the 13th Amendment

• Military

• Congressional

• Presidential

The ____________________ wanted a harsher punishment for the Southern States before they were to be rejoined with the Union

• Sons of Liberty

• Radical Republicans

• Ku Klux Klan

The Southern States refusing to ratify the 14th Amendment and the rise of the KKK lead to Southern States being...

• placed into military districts governed by an army general.

• sold to the Spain for the refusing to compromise.

• kicked out of the Union and never allowed to join again.

Which group was created to help freed slaves adjust to their new life of freedom by building schools, providing food/shelter, and helping the former slaves find lost family members?

• The Freed Salve Agency

• Freedman's Bureau

• Liberty Boys

After the 15th Amendment, what effect did the right to vote have on Georgia's government

• The federal amendment granting blacks to own land was passed

• The Democrats appoint black Governors to the state

• 32 African Americans or Blacks were elected to the Georgia General Assembly

Once the Civil War was over, the Southern Confederate states had to rebuild their economy. What was wrong with the money being used in the south at this time?

• The Confederate dollar was worthless and could not be used to pay for anything.

• The South had to find new slaves to work the fields.

• The North would not accept any money for someone living in the south

What is the major difference between sharecroppers and tenant farmers?

• The tenant farmers usually owned their own tools, animals, and other equipment while sharecroppers brought nothing but their labor into the agreement

• The tenant farmers usually brought nothing but their labor into the agreement while the sharecropper usually had their own tools, animals, and other equipment

Which of the following is the correct response the US Congress had to Georgia and other southern states refusing to ratify and pass the 14th and 15th Amendments?

• Trading the states to Mexico in exchange for new lands to the West.

• Placing the states into Military Districts that were patrolled and monitored by the US Army.

• Refused to pass the Southern Readmission Act of 1866.