Reconstruction 2021

Which of these describes a result of the Thirteenth Amendment?

• African Americans in the North could vote.

• State governments were required to protect individual rights.

• Former Confederate officials were prohibited from holding elected office.

• African Americans in the South were not forced to do labor

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by-

• providing them with voting rights

• guaranteeing their freedom of speech

• providing them with access to the court system

• guaranteeing their permanent freedom from slavery

Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?

• The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The positions taken in the Know-Nothing Party platform

• The Black Codes used by southern states after the Civil War

• The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation

What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

• Agricultural workers organized labor unions.

• Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt and poverty

• Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses.

• Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves.

After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to-

• punish plantation owners for the use of slavery

• support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South

• promote the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau

• limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment

Which of the following best completes this list?

• Established schools

• Certified applications for political office

• Restricted African American rights in the South

• Promoted mineral funding in the West

What did the 14th amendment accomplish?

• Freedom of religion

• Grants citizenship and equal protection for all U.S citizens

• Made slavery illegal in the U.S constitution

• Guarantees voting rights for women

The following group provided aid (help) to former slaves during Reconstruction.

• Black Codes

• Carpetbaggers

• 13th Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

This group used fear & violence to prevent African Americans from voting in the South following Reconstruction

• Black Codes

• Ku Klux Klan

• Radical Republicans

• Carpetbaggers

This secret society attempted to keep Freedmen from exercising their rights through threats and violence.

• the Freedmen's Bureau

• The Anti-Freedmen Group

• the Ku Klux Klan

• the NAACP