Reconstruction

Which is the best description of Reconstruction?

• rebuilding the US after a big earthquake
• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War
• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War
• unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

The 14th Amendment granted...

• freedom of speech
• citizenship and equal protection
• the right to vote
• the right to a speedy and fair trial

Which of these amendments gives citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 18th Amendment

The 13th Amendment ...

• banned slavery
• grants voting rights
• grants citizenship and equal protection
• restores Confederate rights

Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?

• limit African Americans rights
• expand Confederate rights
• give women voting rights
• jail Carpetbaggers

Who could hold public office in the south during Reconstruction?

• African Americans
• Confederate Leaders
• Southern Women
• American Indians

The Presidential Election of 1876 resulted in...

• military supervision of the south
• the restoration of voting rights for white southerners
• the end of Reconstruction in the south
• equal rights for African Americans

Jim Crow Laws passed after Reconstruction took away African American Voting Rights using...

• Voter Registration Laws
• Political Gerrymandering
• Voter Identification Laws
• Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests

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

• Black Codes

• Carpetbaggers

• 13th Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

Agricultural & economic practice where a land owner allows a tenant farmer to work his land for a share of his crop

• sustenance farming

• sharecropping

• carpetbagger

• slavery