Reconstruction Unit Review

Reconstruction policies stated Southern military leaders could NOT

• move north

• hold public office

• return to their plantations

• join the military

What right does the 15th Amendment ensure U.S. citizen regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?

• Freedom of speech

• Freedom of press

• right to vote (for men)

• right to a trial by jury

Which two groups of people did NOT receive the full benefits of citizenship under the 14th and 15th Amendments?

• African Americans and American Indians

• American Indians and Women

• Teenagers and Children

• Immigrants and Women

Why was the Freedman's Bureau established?

• To aid former slaves in the South

• To gather taxes to rebuild the South

• To help establish free and slave states in the new Western Territories.

• To investigate and arrest persons involved in the Underground Railroad.

In this year, troops were removed from the South and Reconstruction was over.

• 1865

• 1880

• 1870

• 1877

Why did Southerners adopt Black Codes?

• To help ensure enslaved African Americans gain farm land.

• To ensure the removal of federal troops from the region.

• To allow enslaved African Americans to use specific codes to communicate.

• To limit the economic and physical freedom of former slaves.

What was the nickname given to the person in this illustration?

• Carpetbagger

• Jim Crow

• Freedman

• Confederate

Abraham Lincoln believed-

• African Americans should remain enslaved

• Southern states should have fewer rights than Northern states

• preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the South

• the United States should become two separate nations

Which amendment bans slavery in the U.S. and all of its territories?

• 14th

• 13th

• 19th

• 15th

What was the legacy left by Frederick Douglass?

• Believed in reconciliation between the North and South during Reconstruction

• Protested federal troops in the South during Reconstruction

• Designed a plan where states could appoint representatives to Congress

• Was a powerful voice for human rights and civil liberties for all