RECONSTRUCTION

The 15th Amendment gave African Americans the right to...

• citizenship.
• vote.
• own land.
• hold political office.

The 13th Amendment ended...

• Black Codes.
• discrimination.
• Jim Crow laws.
• slavery.

The 14th Amendment gave African Americans...

• free land.
• citizenship and equal protection of laws.
• the right the vote.
• money.

Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction called for...

• punishing the South.
• reconciliation and not punishing the South.
• literacy tests be required for voting.
• Jim Crow laws to be passed.

Black Codes were intended to...

• help African Americans gain land.
• limit the economic and physical freedom of former slaves.
• to remove Federal troops from their region.
• to give African Americans a code to communicate.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866, giving African Americans equal rights, was enforced by...

• Northern soldiers
• Confederate soldiers
• General Kiser
• General Clymore

Which is NOT true of Jim Crow laws?

• legalized segregtion
• discriminated against African Americans
• helped African Americans get equal rights
• allowed unequal opportunities for African Americans

How would the Southerners feel about Northern carpetbaggers?

• resented them

• welcomed them

Which of these was set up to help aid former enslaved African Americans?

• Farm Bureau

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Census Office

• Social Security Office

After the 13th Amendment, many freedmen agreed to provide labor on plantations, in exchange for sharing part of the harvested crop. This agreement was called ________.

• labor sharing

• shared harvest

• land sharing

• sharecropping