Civil War Review

When Congress passed the 15th Amendment___________________________________________.

• African Americans were given the right to vote

• slavery was abolished

• women became landowners

• a new Constitution was established

Reconstruction was a time when________________________________________.

• burned forts were rebuilt by slaves

• the federal government established and protected the rights of the newly freed slaves

• towns and cities developed their own governments

• new weapons were given to Confederate soldiers

Following the war, the plantation system collapsed due to________________________________.

• the passage of the Constitution Act

• the loss of slave labor

• the arrival of scalawags

• the establishment of a public education system

True or False? The 15^th Amendment gave women the right to vote.

• True
• False

This amendment abolished (got rid of) slavery.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 3rd

The Reconstruction/Civil War Amendments helped to promote equality in the black community. However, there were some factors that still limited their rights. What were they?

• Slavery was abolished

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The North winning the Civil War

• Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, and literacy tests

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

• Helped reconnecting slaves with their families

• Helped create schools

• Helped provide food, clothing, medical care

• Forced African Americans to become sharecroppers

The organization put in place after the Civil War to provide food, clothing, health care and education in the South was known as:

• The Civil Rights Committee
• The Freedmen's Bureau
• The Welfare Committee
• The Salvation Army

Which of the following is true about sharecropping

• Sharecropping favored the freeedmen.

• Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping

• Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty

• Many state governments offered loan for sharecropping farmers.

What replaced slavery in the south after the Civil War

• Tenant Farming

• Sharecropping

• Slavery

• Labor Unions