Reconstruction Review

Which of the following best describes the 14^th Amendment?

• a.  Allowed all male citizens, including African Americans, the right to vote
• a.  Made slavery illegal to practice within the United States
• a.  Stated that African Americans were citizens of the United States with the same rights as others 
• Allowed all citizens, including women, the right to vote

Which of the following best describes the 15^th Amendment?

• a.  Allowed all male citizens, including African Americans, the right to vote
• a.  Made slavery illegal to practice within the United States
• a.  Stated that African Americans were citizens of the United States with the same rights as others 
• Allowed all citizens, including women, the right to vote

Which of the following best describes the 13^th Amendment?

• a.  Allowed all male citizens, including African Americans, the right to vote
• a.  Made slavery illegal to practice within the United States
• a.  Stated that African Americans were citizens of the United States with the same rights as others 
• Allowed all citizens, including women, the right to vote

What were Black Codes?

• Laws made by Lincoln to protect former slaves.
• Top secret encoding methods used for messages during the Civil War
• Civil Rights laws that made it easier for former slaves to adapt to their new lives.
• Laws in the South that made it difficult for black people to get jobs, vote, and go to school.

What was the purpose of Reconstruction in the United States? 

• To tax the southern states as punishment for the war
• To help the southern states become a part of the Union again.
  
  
• To rebuild the industry of the northern states
• To build up the west as a replacement to the south

This group opposed Lincoln's plan for reconstruction and felt the south should be punished.

• Democrats

• Radical Republicans

• Libertarians

• Socialists

This secret society attempted to keep Freedmen from exercising their rights through threats and violence.

• the Freedmen's Bureau

• The Anti-Freedmen Group

• the Ku Klux Klan

• the NAACP

The intent of the KKK was to

• help former slaves vote in elections

• prevent former slaves from voting in elections

• help former soldiers adjust to life at home

• prevent women from voting

Why did Sharecropping and tenant farming become the dominant form of agriculture after the Civil War?

• many former Confederate soldiers were available to work

• the government offered farmers incentives to practice sharecropping

• there were many former slaves who needed work and plantation owners who needed labor

• people flocked to the south after the war for jobs

All of the following are TRUE about Lincoln's plan EXCEPT

• only 10% of the people had to take the loyalty oath

• meant to pardon all southerners except high ranking military leaders

• meant to be slow and difficult

• meant to restore the southern state to the Union