Chapter 17: Reconstruction

The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans citizenship

• Gave African Americans the right to vote

• Freed the slaves

• Supported poll taxes

Common in southern states, __________________________ enforced segregation, or the separation of whites from African Americans in public places.

• the Black Codes

• Civil Rights Act of 1875

• Compromise of 1877

• Jim Crow laws

The Ku Klux Klan was formed in response to the increasing number of African Americans taking office in the federal government, among other examples of the extension of civil rights to African Americans.

• True

• False

The Fifteenth Amendment granted African American men ______________________ rights in the United States.

• voting

• citizenship

Lincoln’s main vision for Reconstruction was to

• quickly return the South to its previous way of life.

• see freed slaves living as equals with their white counterparts.

• reunite the nation as quickly and painlessly as possible.

• make it difficult for the southern states to reenter the Union.

The ____________________ Amendment, passed by Congress in 1865, made slavery illegal.

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

The Freedmen’s Bureau was a/an

• organization established by Congress to aid poor southerners.

• organization made up of a group of newly freed African Americans.

• group created to establish rules and regulations for freedmen in the United States.

• group designed to aid Reconstruction by building the economy of the South.

Whom did white southerners call “carpetbaggers”?

• former Confederate leaders who joined the Republican Party

• African American Republicans who took over Confederate seats

• former slaves living in the north who voted with the Republicans

• northern-born Republican office-holders in the South

Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was known as:

• Wade-Davis Bill
• 14th Amendment
• Ten Percent Plan
• Radical Republican Reunification

This group rose to power to help fight inequality and discrimination, such as black codes.

• Southern Democrats

• Radical Republicans

• Johnsonian Republicans

• Segregationists