Reconstruction Review Game

1. Which group was a government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves and others in the South?

• Jim Crow Laws
• Freedman’s Bureau
• 13th Amendment
• sharecropping

2. The 14th Amendment said that _____.

• All slaves were free
• All women could vote
• All men could vote
• Former Slaves were now equal citizens

3. Unfair poll taxes and tests were established to keep African Americans from ____.

• Paying taxes
• Voting for leaders
• Obeying segregation laws
• sharecropping

4. As a result of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, slave owners in the South _____.

• were required to free all of their slaves.
• had to limit the hours that they made their slaves work.
• could track down any slave who escaped.
• were forced to give a portion of land to each slave.

5. The Freedmen's Bureau was started by the U.S. government during the Reconstruction of the South. It was created to help former slaves. What was one thing the Bureau was responsible for?

• Punishing former slave owners
• Building schools for former slaves
• Getting the 14th Amendment passed
• Hiding escaped slaves from their owner

6. After the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination, what did President Johnson decide to do with the abandoned plantation lands in the South?

• give them to poor whites and former slaves

• take them for the U.S. government

• give them back to their former owners

• divide them among the freed slaves

7. After Reconstruction, blacks were not allowed to sit in the same areas at the theater as whites. They had to sit in the back part of the theater, while whites sat at the front of the theater. This is an example of ____.

• reconstruction
• desegregation
• reconciliation
• discrimination

8. The 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870, five years after the Civil War had ended. This amendment allowed the newly freed slaves to

• become owners of land and property
• participate more fully as citizens by voting
• press charges against their former masters
• emigrate to another country

9. Which right did African Americans gain due to the Civil War?

• freedom
• jobs
• Clothing
• housing

10. Which word means the separation of people, usually based on race or religion?

• Organization
• Civilization
• Segregation
• reconstruction