Reconstruction Era Day 6

______________________________________________________________ often left freedmen and poor whites in a cycle of debt.

• Sharecropping
• Black codes
• Fifteenth Amendment
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Mexican Cession

The _________________________________________________________________ helped black southerners adjust to freedom.

• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Black codes
• Fifteenth Amendment
• Mexican Cession
• Oregon Territory

The _________________________________________________________________ allowed African American men to vote in elections at all levels of government.

• Fifteenth Amendment
• Black codes
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Mexican Cession
• Oregon Territory

_____________________________________________________________ were laws that put restrictions on freedmen in the South.

• Black codes
• Fifteenth Amendment
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Mexican Cession
• Oregon Territory

The ___________________________________________________________ was acquired after the U.S.-Mexican War.

• Mexican Cession
• Black codes
• Fifteenth Amendment
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Oregon Territory

The ____________________________________________________________ was acquired from the British in a treaty, and it helped the U.S. fulfill its goal of Manifest Destiny.

• Oregon Territory
• Black codes
• Fifteenth Amendment
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Mexican Cession

This graphic organizer is about the Transcontinental Railroad.

Which of the following best explains the effects of the Transcontinental Railroad?

Select THREE correct answers.

Match the following

• Abolished slavery, African Americans were free to move wherever they wanted

• 13th Amendment

• Rights not given the federal government are rights of the states

• 14th Amendment

• African American males were granted the right to vote

• 15th Amendment

• Granted citizenship to African Americans, all Americans were to be treated equally under the law

• 10th Amendment

Which of the following is a specific example of how the Freedmen's Bureau supported former slaves?

• Jobs were given to freedmen in the lumber industry

• Money was given to freedmen to buy food and shelter

• Education was provided to freedmen

• Trains and wagons carried freedmen to the North to find jobs

How did sharecropping affect farmers in the South during Reconstruction?

• By introducing new technology for grown food

• By expanding the region's dependence on corn production

• By making landowners buy supplies from the government

• By keeping renters in debt to landlords.