GA History: 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.

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 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.

What conclusion can be drawn from the following list?

● 13th Amendment (1865)-Abolition of Slavery

● 14th Amendment (1866)-Definition of Citizenship: Due Process

● 15th Amendment (1869)-Right to Vote not based on Race or previous servitude

• strengthen states’ rights over federal laws

• weaken the Jim Crow laws that were passed by the North

• abolish slavery and establish rights to former slaves

• strengthen the Bill of Rights in support of the Constitution

Which of the following was not a part of the Freedman's Bureau?

• Helped reconnecting slaves with their families
• Helped create African American Colleges
• Helped feed slaves
• Forced African Americans to become sharecroppers

A secret society of ex-Confederates who used intimidation to return political power to white men

• Freedom Riders
• Ku Klux Klan
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Radical Republicans