SS Reconstruction Review

1. What did the purpose of the 14th Amendment?

• Freed slaves were allowed to go to school to get an aducation

• Freed slaves became citizens and states could not limit their rights.

• The south was able to make laws to segregate blacks and whites.

Who benefited the MOST from the system of sharecropping after the Civil War?

• landowners

• farm workers

• the government

What was true of the Jim Crow laws passed in the South during and after Reconstruction?

• They helped African Americans get jobs.

• They were laws for racial segregation.

• They amended the constitution to allow African Americans to vote.

Who gained the right vote when the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified?

• Women

• All people

• African American men

What was the goal of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To help the North win the war.

• To help free slaves.

• To provide housing and medical care to former slaves.

What key factor prevented the Freedmen's Bureau from accomplishing its goals

• Violence toward African Americans.

• There was not enough money.

• They did not have anyone that needed help.

What was one reason that sharecropping became commonplace during Reconstruction?

• There were a lot of factories in the south.

• There was a large number of unemployed workers.

• People needed food for their families.

What was one reason sharecropping was considered a new form of slavery?

• The farmers were not allowed to leave once they began working.

• The farmers usually owed money to the landowner and had to keep working for them

• The farmers did not get paid anything for their work.

Which of the following would have been a typical Jim Crow law?

• A law requiring African American children and white children to attend different schools.

• A law banning poll taxes.

• A law allowing all men to vote no matter his race.