RECONSTRUCTION REVIEW 1

Which is the best description of Reconstruction?

• rebuilding the US after a big earthquake
• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War
• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War
• unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

The 14th Amendment granted...

• freedom of speech
• citizenship and equal protection
• the right to vote
• the right to a speedy and fair trial

Which of these amendments gives citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 18th Amendment

The 13th Amendment ...

• banned slavery
• grants voting rights
• grants citizenship and equal protection
• restores Confederate rights

Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?

• limit African Americans rights
• expand Confederate rights
• give women voting rights
• jail Carpetbaggers

The Ku Klux Klan was a group that believed...

• in white supremacy
• in equality for all
• in black supremacy
• in southern supremacy

What's the best title for this list? 

• Black Codes
• Reconstruction Laws & Policies
• Civil War Codes
• Jim Crow Laws

Abraham Lincoln believed...

• African Americans needed Constitutional Amendments to guarantee voting rights
• in the southern cause
• southern states should have to prove their loyalty after the war
• preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the south

The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau was to

• provide 40 acres and a mule for each slave.

• gain the vote for millions of former slaves.

• provide work, education, and relief for former slaves.

• get radical Republicans in positions of power in the South.

Match the following

• Agency established by Congress to help former slaves in the South

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in exchange for a portion of their crops

• Freedmen´s Bureau

• Period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War

• Reconstruction

• Banned states from denying African Americans right to vote

• Sharecropping

• African American Citizenship

• Fifteenth Amendment