Reconstruction

What amendment lets all men of any race vote?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Which laws allowed Union Soldiers to supervise the south during Reconstruction?

• Jim Crow Laws
• the Voting Rights Act
• the Amnesty Act
• the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Military Reconstruction Act

What is it called when there is unfair treatment of people or groups?

• laws

• discrimination

• suffrage

What was the Freedman's Bureau?

• gave education, food, medicine, and clothes to former slaves

• gave citizenship to all men

• gave food to Northern soldiers

What did Jim Crow laws do?

• made discrimination and segregation legal

• let all people become citizens

• helped African Americans get education and medicine

Who was Andrew Johnson?

• the leader of the Freedman's Bureau

• president during the Civil War

• president during Reconstruction

Which is the BEST description of the southern economy during Reconstruction?

• The southern economy was stabilized because of trade relationships with Great Britain and France.

• The southern economy was still based on agriculture and cotton, but now depended on sharecropping rather than slave labor

• The southern economy was transformed from being based on agriculture to being completely dependent on industry and manufacturing.

• The southern economy was completely restored by 1866 and was actually more productive and profitable than the pre- Civil War economy.

Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" dealt with

• his idea for instituting an income tax.

• how to draft more men into the Union Army.

• re-admitting Southern states into the Union.

• his quest to reconquer only 10% of the South

Who could hold public office in the south after the Civil War? 

• southern women
• Confederate Leaders
• American Indians
• African Americans

What did the 15th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• gave former slaves land to begin farms