Unit 1.2 Reconstruction

How did the Thirteenth Amendment change the lives of African Americans?

• They could no longer be enslaved.
• They became citizens.
• They were allowed to vote.
• They were given land.

In 1866, Congress passed the Freedmen's Bureau Act. What was the main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• to give freedmen their own homes
• to help African Americans shift from slavery to freedom
• to give freemen $1,000 each
• to give African America women the right to vote

Which of the following were laws passed after Reconstruction that focused on segregation of the races??

• slave codes

• black codes

• Jim Crow laws

• civil rights acts

How did the Fifteenth Amendment change some people's lives?

• It ended slavery and freed the slaves in the South.
• It gave legal protections to all U.S. citizens.
• It made everyone in the U.S. citizens.
• It gave African American men the right to vote.

How did sharecropping system affect African Americans during Reconstruction?

• Landowners could lie about things like expenses to keep the sharecroppers in debt.

• It gave them enough money to buy land.

• It gave them power over plantation owners.

• It allowed them to afford moving to the North.

Which statement is a valid generalization about the

experience of African Americans during the early

Reconstruction period (1865–1870)?

• They gained economic equality.

• Their participation in government decreased.

• They achieved legal rights through constitutional amendments.

• Their political equality was opposed by most Radical Republicans.

Black Codes were established in the South immediately after the Civil War in an effort to

• integrate freedmen into American society

• enforce the Emancipation Proclamation

• expand educational opportunities

• limit the rights of newly freed African Americans.

After 1877, racial segregation became widespread in the South primarily as a result of the

• decline of the Ku Klux Klan

• activities of the Freedmen’s Bureau

• Black Codes

• passage of Jim Crow laws

Slavery throughout the United States was permanently abolished by the

• ratification of the Constitution of the United States

• approval of the Republican Party platform of 1860

• issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

• adoption of the 13th amendment to the Constitution

After the Civil War, a purpose of adding the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution was to

• create economic opportunities for newly freed former slaves

• correct injustices created because of Reconstruction

• correct injustices suffered by African Americans because of slavery.

• Limit the power of state governments.