Reconstruction

Which group was a government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves and others in the South?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedman’s Bureau

• 13th Amendment

• sharecropping

The 14th Amendment said that _____

• all slaves were free

• all women could vote

• all men could vote

• former slaves were now equal citizens

Unfair poll taxes and tests were established to keep African Americans from...

• paying taxes

• voting

• sharecropping

As a result of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, slave owners in the South ____

• were required to free all of their slaves

• had to limit the hours that they made their slaves work

• could track down any slave who escaped

• were forced to give a portion of land to each slave

The Freedmen's Bureau was started by the U.S. government during the Reconstruction of the South. It was created to help former slaves. What was one thing the Bureau was responsible for?

• Punishing former slave owners

• Building schools for former slaves

• Getting the 14th Amendment passed

• Hiding escaped slaves from their owner

After Reconstruction, blacks were not allowed to sit in the same areas at the theater as whites. They had to sit in the back part of the theater, while whites sat at the front of the theater. This is an example of ____.

• reconstruction

• reconciliation

• discrimination

The 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870, five years after the Civil War had ended. This amendment allowed the newly freed slaves to

• become land owners

• vote

• emigrate to another country

Which word means the separation of people, usually based on race or religion?

• segregation

• civilization

• reconstruction

Why was Reconstruction needed in the United States?

• The Civil War destroyed parts of the country.

• The Industrial Revolution meant new building materials.

• The Revolutionary War destroyed parts of the country.

• Slaves had to be divided among northern states.

Period that followed the Civil War when states were brought back into the Union and the country was rebuilt.

• Rebuilding

• Revolution

• Amendments

• Reconstruction