Reconstruction Era

Match the following vocabulary words

• The rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people, especially equal treatment under law

• Freedman's Bureau

• An agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect black Americans

• Civil Rights

• Laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War

• Reconstruction

• Laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in former Confederate states to limit rights of African Americans

• Jim Crow Laws

• The period after the Civil War in which Southern States rebuilt.

• Black Codes

This amendment, ratified in 1870, declared that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color

• 13th

• 15th

• 21st

• 14th

This amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery

• 15th

• 14th

• 13th

• 12th

What was the purpose of the 13th amendment?

• to abolish slavery

• to provide citizenship to former enslaved people

• to allow freedman to run for office

• to legislate fair treatment for all citizens

As a result of the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867, which of these made up the largest group of NEW Southern voters?

• Northerners who moved to the South

• former Confederate soldiers

• African Americans

• white Southern Democrats

What did Congress hope the Enforcement Acts would prevent?

• to integrate Southern schools

• to end government corruption

• to protect the voting rights of Southerners

• to return White Democrats to power

All of these were included in President Johnson's Reconstruction plan except

• cancellation of war debts

• new state constitutions for Confederate states

• ratification of the 13th amendment

• guarantee of voting rights for freedmen

What was an effect of the Southern poll tax law?

• African Americans were denied voting rights

• Money was raised to fund public education

• Public funding of small business increased

• Southern Democrats were voted out of office

How did African Americans who remained in the South improve their lives?

• They conducted violent protests to obtain rights

• they worked together to build communities

• they received money from relatives in the North

• They depended upon government welfare

The Military Reconstruction Act was enacted in response to the actions of which president?

• Lincoln

• Grant

• Johnson

• Hayes