Reconstruction Review Pt. B

Northerners began to lose interest in protecting the rights of freed people because it became ______

• too annoying

• too dangerous

• too expensive

• too overbearing

What factor would have truly led to freedom for former slaves?

• having a bank account

• having the right to vote

• owning land

• owning slaves

Who did the federal government say should have the responsibility of rebuilding the South economically and physically?

• individuals, and local governments only

• individuals, and local and state governments

• individuals, and state governments only

• local and state govenrnments

What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau? (Choose the best answer.)

• To provide food, clothing, medical care, and education for poor black and white families.

• To provide food, clothing, medical care, and education for poor black families.

• To provide education for poor black families.

• To provide clothing and medical care for poor white families.

What happened to land given to African Americans by the Freedmen's Bureau?

•  President Lincoln pardoned (forgave) the white owners and returned their property to them.

• President Johnson pardoned (forgave) the white owners and returned their property to them.

• The former plantation owners started a mob to take back their land by force.

• African Americans were unsuccessful in owning land, unable to grow crops.

Who developed plans for Reconstruction?

• Congress

• President Johnson

• President Lincoln

• All developed plans

Instead of having their own land, what did the Freedmen's Bureau help African Americans do?

• Raise enough money to buy most families a nice plot of land.

• Asked other political parties to sponsor acres of land for African Americans to work.

• Created a Free Land system.

• Establish the sharecropping relationship with the worker-less plantation owner.

What was the purpose of President Lincoln's plan?

• To end the war as quickly as possible.

• To abolish slavery in every state.

• To keep Ten Percent of the union as slave states.

• To keep Ten Percent of the union as free states.

Why did South Carolina have to write a new state constitution in 1868?

• South Carolina ratified the 14th and 15th amendments and they wanted to undo that change.

• To acknowledge that slavery was now abolished in South Carolina.

• South Carolina refused to ratify the 14th and 15th amendments.

• To give women the right to vote in South Carolina. 

What were all southern states required to do before they could form a new government? 

• They would acknowledge and ratify the 13th amendment. 

• They would acknowledge and ratify the 14th amendment. 

• They would acknowledge and ratify the 15th amendment. 

• They would acknowledge and ratify the 19th amendment.