Reconstruction Review

Former slaves becoming hopelessly entangled in a cycle of debt and poverty was a result of the

• Morrill Act

• Dawes Act

• sharecropping system

• corruption and greed of Radical Republicans

Black Codes were designed to

• punish Southern white Democrats after the Civil War

• oppose the effects of the Thirteenth Amendment

• help establish the Freedmen's Bureau

• assist Radical Republicans in creating military districts

As Reconstruction began, the South could have been characterized by

• economically well off, business driven economy

• failed banks, reasonable food prices, destroyed infrastructure

• worthless currency, failed businesses, destroyed physical infrastructure, food shortages

• crop failures, healthy businesses, worthless currency

As freed slaves and African Americans began to enjoy rights under Reconstruction, which group began with the primary goal of interfering with these changes?

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Radical Republicans

• Disciples of John Brown

The period of time immediately after the Civil War where the Confederate States rejoined the Union. 

• Reconstruction
• Industrial Era
• Golden Age
• Great Depression

Who took the office of President after President Lincoln was assassinated?

• Andrew Jackson
• Andrew Johnson
• Andrew Livingston
• Andrew Young

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What amendment abolished (ended) slavery?

• 12th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

The amendment that prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on his or her race.

• 12th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

The 14th amendment to the Constitution was the second of the "Reconstruction Amendments." What was the purpose of this amendment?

• to give African Americans the right to vote
• to give all Americans citizenship regardless of race 
• to abolish slavery
• 
  to officially terminate the government of the Confederate States of America

When farmers rented land in exchange for crops, this was known as ___________________.

• carpetbagging
• segregation
• sharecropping
• crop sharing