Reconstruction Objective 2

During Reconstruction, the Freedmen’s Bureau

• gave forty acres and a mule to every former slave.

• created a system for well-paying tenant farming.

• relocated many former slaves to the North using government money.

• established schools for former slaves.

Which newspaper headline would have appeared during the Reconstruction Period after the Civil War?

• “Supreme Court Issues Dred Scott Decision”

• “Jim Crow Laws End”

• “Emancipation Proclamation Issued”

• “Former Slaves Made Citizens”

Share Cropping was...

• Sharing your crops with other freedmen

• A fair system of farming designed to help freedmen earn citizenship

• Better than slavery, but a very difficult system

• Adopting federal laws mandating segregation between Blacks and Whites

Base your answer to the question below on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. "[The registrar] brought a big old book out there, and he gave me the sixteenth section of the constitution of Mississippi, . . . I could copy it like it was in the book, but after I got through copying it, he told me to give a reasonable interpretation and tell the meaning of the section I had copied. Well, I flunked out." Source: A History of the United States since 1861 / The main intent of the literacy test described in the passage was to

• encourage Mississippi residents to learn about their state’s legal system

• encourage reform of the political system

• enforce the provisions of the United States Constitution

• prevent African Americans from exercising a basic right

One of the functions of the Freedmen’s Bureau was to

• discourage segregation in the South.

• relocate former slaves to urban areas.

• reward veterans with land and money

• provide assistance to former slaves.

How were many African Americans in the South affected after Reconstruction ended in 1877?

• The Freedmen’s Bureau helped them become farm owners.

• Jim Crow laws placed major restrictions on their rights.

• A constitutional amendment guaranteed their social advancement

• Jim Crow laws had little effect on Freed Black's rights

The Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), provided all of the following, except:

• limitations on the political and economic freedoms of black southerners

• a promise that white southerners could remain in a superior position in society

• separate public facilities based on race

• voting rights for African-American males

The Jim Crow laws of the post-Civil War Era were attempts by who to do what?

• states to ban organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan

• state and local governments to restrict the freedoms of African Americans

• the Radical Republicans in Congress to carry out Reconstruction plans

• the Federal Government to improve the status of African Americans and Native American Indians

The Jim Crow laws of the post-Civil War Era were attempts by who to do what?

• states to ban organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan

• state and local governments to restrict the freedoms of African Americans

• the Radical Republicans in Congress to carry out Reconstruction plans

• the Federal Government to improve the status of African Americans and Native American Indians

The Jim Crow legal system, which expanded in the South after Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), was based on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the

• states’ rights provision of the 10th Amendment

• equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment

• due process clause of the 5th Amendment

• voting rights