Reconstruction Review

This group helped newly freed slaves with food, medical care, jobs, housing and schooling. 

• Sharecropping
• Jim Crow Laws
• Reconstruction
• Freedmen's Bureau 

With Jim Crow laws, blacks and whites could attend the same schools.

• True
• False

The Freedmen’s Bureau used a poll tax to keep many African Americans from voting.

• True
• False

Abraham Lincoln was president during Reconstruction.

• True
• False

Jim Crow laws legally segregated African Americans and white people.

• True
• False

If you had been a White Southerner during this time, what would your goal(s) have been for Reconstruction?

• I would want my life to return to as normal as possible with very little change.
• I would want equal voting rights for all African Americans.
• I would want President Lincoln to follow through with his plan to abolish slavery.
• I would want to extend the Freedman’s Bureau to protect the rights of African Americans.

Many Southerners felt that carpetbaggers were people who moved from the North to ______________.

• help promote Johnson’s Reconstruction plan.
• build schools and churches with the Freedman’s Bureau.
• economically take advantage of Southerners devastated by the war.
• join the KKK and promote the Black Codes.

What was the aim or aims of African Americans during Reconstruction? 

• Reunite with their families
• Enjoy the freedom that had been denied to them
• Establish strong communities and places to worship
• All of these

How did the 13^th amendment protect the rights of African Americans and improve their opportunities?

• African American men were able to hold political office. 
• African American men were able vote. 
• A.  African Americans were freed. 
• A.  African Americans were made citizens, thus gaining “equal protection under the law.” 

How did the 14^th amendment protect the rights of African Americans and improve their opportunities?

• African American men were able to hold political office. 
• African American men were able vote. 
• A.  African Americans were freed. 
• A.  African Americans were made citizens, thus gaining “equal protection under the law.”