SS8H6- Georgia and Reconstruction

What agency help former slaves with food, clothing, jobs, school and hospitals?

• Freed Slave Alliance

• Freed People's Agency

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Abraham's Friends

According to the Georgia Constitution, Southern Democrats expelled Blacks from the Georgia legislature because:

• They did not have the right to hold office.

• They did not have the right to vote.

• They sided with the Southern Democrats

• They owned too much land.

A person who did not own land, tools or anything else but offered his labor to work the land is:

• A tenant farmer

• A Sharecropper

• A Successful Farmer.

• An owner of land.

Which statement describes the attitude of the Ku Klux Klan?

• The KKK supported the ideas of Congressional Reconstruction.

• The KKK supported Black American politicians.

• The KKK used violence to terrorize Blacks from voting.

• The KKK agreed with Radical Republicans.

Who favored harsher punishment on the Reconstruction plans?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Congressional Republicans

• Confederate leaders

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution ______________________.

• Free Speech

• Abolished Slavery

• Voting rights

• Ended the Civil War

The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was known as

• A. New South

• B. Reconstruction

• C. Atlanta Compromise

• D. Georgia Platform

Which of the following ended slavery throughout the United States?

• A. The Thirteenth Amendment

• B. The Fourteenth Amendment

• C. The Fifteenth Amendment

• D. The Emancipation Proclamation

The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans the right to own businesses

• Freed the Slaves

• Gave African Americans the right to vote

• Forced African Americans back into slavery

The members of Congress battled with both presidents because they felt that the Presidential Reconstruction Plans:

• were too focused on helping the freed African slaves, but not on helping the poor, white farmers.

• were too strict to allow the Union to ever be reunited as it was prior to the Civil War.

• were too lenient on the Southern states that had rebelled against the Union.

• were created too quickly without consulting the former leaders of the Confederate states.