Reconstruction Assessment

What is the basic meaning of the Fifteenth Amendment?

• Provide civil rights to all blacks

• Give all men the right to vote

• Prohibit slavery

• Provide due process of law to all

Identify the statement that best describes President Andrew Johnson’s beliefs about Reconstruction.

• Johnson believed that the Radical Republicans should lead Reconstruction.

• Johnson believed the South should never face harsh punishments.

• Johnson believed former Confederate states should be readmitted to the Union quickly.

• Johnson believed in redistributing property from former Confederates to freed slaves.

“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge [limit] the privileges or immunities [rights] of citizens of the United States nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, and property without due process of law. . . .”

Which Reconstruction amendment contained the above statement?

• 6th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

The Ku Klux Klan was a terrorist organization whose primary goal was to do what?

• make carpetbaggers and scalawags move back to the North

• return control of Southern governments to white Democrats

• keep immigration limited to the Northern states

• ensure that President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

Finish the statement: Antietam was…

• Bloodiest battle of the Civil War

• Bloodiest single day of the Civil War

• Bloodiest battle in Georgia

• The major turning point of the Civil War

Which of the following BEST describes the period of Reconstruction?

• before the Civil War when slavery flourished in the South

• after the Civil War when the federal government took control of Southern states

• while the United States was rebuilding its relationships with other countries

• after the Mexican War when the economy of the United States improved

The "Black Codes" passed in the South early in the Reconstruction era were designed to

• restrict the rights of former slaves

• guarantee a minimum wage for former slaves

• force former slaves to move to cities and work in industry

• offer financial assistance to African Americans who had fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War

What was ONE reason whites removed African American/Black legislators from the Georgia General Assembly during Reconstruction?

• to end Jim Crow laws

• to gain political power

• to reinforce military rule

• to promote New South goals

What is the basic meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment?

• Provide jobs for all blacks

• Give all men the right to vote

• Prohibit slavery

• Provide due process of law to all

Where was the site of the largest and bloodiest Civil War battle in Georgia?

• Chickamauga

• Andersonville

• Atlanta

• Savannah