Reconstruction Review

What was the Radical Republicans' main agenda?

• punishment for Union military officers and returning to pre-Civil War policies

• punishment for Confederate leaders and protection of the rights of freedpeople

• to secede from the Union

• to reinstate the practice of slavery

Which of the following limited the civil rights of African Americans during Presidential Reconstruction?

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The 14th amendment

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

Answer explanation

While both the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws limited Civil Rights for African Americans, the "Black Codes" is the correct answer because these laws were passed during Presidential Reconstruction.

What agency was created to help former slaves and provided food, shelter, clothing, and schools.

• The Ku Klux Klan

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The Red Shirts

• The Sharecroppers' Bureau

What did the Reconstruction Acts accomplish?

• They provided land to freedpeople.

• Congress divided the South into military districts, and placed it under martial law.

• Plantation owners were forced to give their land to poor whites who did not own land.

• Confederate leaders were allowed to hold office in state legislatures.

The 15th Amendment gave African American men the right to...

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

The 14th Amendment gave African Americans...

• free land.
• citizenship and equal protection before the law.

• the right the vote.
• money.

What was the farming system that kept freed African Americans in debt and poverty?

• Slavery

• Sharecropping

• Jim Crow

• 13th Amendment

What was the purpose of the Black Codes?

• To restrict the labor and rights of black Americans

• To create segregated facilities

• To abolish slavery

• To protect civil rights

Which Amendment declared that anyone born in the USA is a citizen?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Which Reconstruction Amendment granted citizenship to everyone born in the United States?

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment