Unit 8 Study Guide

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Reconstruction: Reconstruction, the era following the U.S. Civil War, was an effort to ___________ the divided nation and _____________ African Americans into society.

• stop/decompose

• reunify/integrate

• rationalize/consider

• fight/surrender

Which statement is TRUE about President Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

• Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson decided to enforces Black Codes that put restrictions on Freedman.

• Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson were brothers.

• Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson came to America as immigrants of Italy

• Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson both wanted the South to reenter the union as quickly as possible.

All of the following laws were participants during Jim Crow EXPECT which one?

• Poll tax

• Literacy test

• Grandfather clause

• Impeachment

Freedmen in the south made their living usually by ....

• farming

• as craftsmen

• as house servants

• as politicians

This secret society attempted to keep Freedmen from exercising their rights through threats and violence.

• the Freedmen's Bureau

• The Anti-Freedmen Group

• the Ku Klux Klan

• the NAACP

The 13th Amendment

• gave former slaves citizenship

• gave former slaves the right to vote

• gave slaves their freedom

• gave women the right to vote

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution ...

• abolished slavery

• gave former slaves their citizenship

• gave former slaves the right to vote

• gave women the right to own property

The intent of the KKK was to

• help former slaves vote in elections

• prevent former slaves from voting in elections

• help former soldiers adjust to life at home

• prevent women from voting

After the Civil War there was an effort by whites to maintain

• slavery

• white supremacy

• the Confederacy

• women staying in the kitchen and taking care of the home

Some of the goals of the Freedmen's Bureau included

• help with housing

• building and running schools

• providing food and clothing for former slaves

• all of the above