Reconstruction Parts 2 & 3

Whose quote? "What I seek for the negro is not benvolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice"

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Frederick Douglass

• Booker T. Washington

• Martin Luther King, Jr

Harriet Tubman exemplified the desire among all humans for freedom by

• escaping slavery

• helping others scape slavery on the Underground Railroad

• returning to slave territory 19 times to help others escape

• all of the above

The Emancipation Proclamation issued January 1, 1863 made all slaves free...

• in the Southern states

• in slave holding states

• in the United States

• In Southern states but only those in open rebellion with the United States

An immediate result of the Emancipation Proclamation was

• 200,000 slaves ran away to join the Union Army

• Slaves who did not run away refused to work to produce anything for the Confederacy

• Some slaves ran to the protection of the Union Army when they came through and began their own farms

• all of the above

The two greatest desires for former slaves after the Civil War ended were

• freedom to travel and to vote

• autonomy (the right to be left alone) and land

• Positions in government and the homes of their owners

• revenge and justice

The law that permanently banned slavery in the United States was

• the 13th Amendment

• the 14th Amendment

• the 15th Amendment

• the Emancipation Proclamation

The second clause in the 13th Amendment says that

• the executive branch will enforce the law protecting the freedom of all people

• it's left to each state to make the necessary laws to ensure freedoms

• the Congress shall enforce the law through appropriate legislation

• none of these are correct

"The very idea of black people as equal citizens ran completely agains the history and legacy of white supremecy". This quote from the professor in the film is referring to what revolutionary change that former slaves were seeking?

• the right to vote

• the right to land

• the right to interracial marriage

• the right to attend school

The institution that was designed to help blacks set up schools, courts and resettle on abandoned lands was called the

• New Citizen's Department

• The Department of Freedom

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The Land Re-Settlement Brigade

Laws passed by many new state governments in the South that were designed to restrict the black population and force black men to return to work on the plantations were known as...

• Black codes

• Jim Crow laws

• segregation laws

• separate but equal laws