Key Concept 5A: Reconstruction

What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• To advocate for civil rights and equality for African Americans

• To enforce racial segregation in the Southern United States

• To assist formerly enslaved people in transitioning to an independent life

• To provide food and medical care to poor whites in the South

What were the Black Codes?

• Laws enacted to control and limit the freedom of African Americans

• Laws enacted to promote civil rights and equality for African Americans

• Laws enacted to provide assistance to Blacks in the South

• Laws enacted to control poor whites in the South

Who were the Radical Republicans?

• A faction within the Republican Party that opposed the Freedmen’s Bureau

• A faction within the Republican Party that supported the Black Codes

• A faction within the Republican Party that sought to enforce racial segregation in the Southern United States

• A faction within the Republican Party that advocated for civil rights and equality for African Americans

What was the goal of Congressional Reconstruction?

• To divide the South into military districts and enforce racial segregation

• To address civil rights issues and integrate newly freed slaves into society

• To hinder the full freedom and equality of newly emancipated individuals

• To maintain the social and economic structure of the South

What did the 14th Amendment address?

• The right to vote for African American men

• Citizenship rights and equal protection under the law

• The right to own property for African Americans

• The right to education for African American children

What did the 15th Amendment guarantee?

• The right to education for African American children

• Equal protection under the law for all citizens

• The right to vote for African American men

• The right to own property for African Americans

What was the Compromise of 1877?

• A political agreement to divide the South into military districts

• A political agreement to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876 that ended Reconstruction

• A political agreement to enforce racial segregation in the Southern United States

• A political agreement to protect the rights of African Americans

What were Jim Crow laws?

• Laws enacted to provide assistance to poor whites in the South

• Laws enacted to ensure the freedom of African Americans

• Laws enacted to promote civil rights and equality for African Americans

• Racially discriminatory laws and practices that enforced racial segregation

What was sharecropping?

• A system where landless farmers were given land and resources to start their own farms

• A system where landless farmers were paid a fixed wage for their labor

• A system where landless farmers were provided with food, medical care, and education

• A system where landless farmers worked on someone else's land and gave a portion of the crops as rent

What is segregation?

• The enforced separation of different racial or ethnic groups

• The integration of different racial or ethnic groups in public facilities

• The equal treatment of different racial or ethnic groups in society

• The promotion of civil rights and equality for all citizens