SS8H6c Reconstruction

The MAIN purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to

• help slaves adjust to their newfound freedom.
  
• battle terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
  
• serve as a voice for freed slaves in Congress.
  
• establish black codes to limit freed slaves’ rights.

The Constitutional amendment that prohibited denying voting rights to people based on race or color or previous servitude

• Twelfth Amendment.
• Fifteenth Amendment.
• Thirteenth Amendment.
• Fourteenth Amendment.

Following the Civil War, ___ were very common in Southern agriculture, bringing with them work tools and work animals.

• freemen
  
• land owners
  
• sharecroppers
  
• tenant farmers

Which Reconstruction plan called for harsh punishments for the former rebellious states and emphasized civil and voting rights for freedmen following the Civil War?

• the Square Deal
  
• Lincoln's 10% Plan
• the Louisiana Plan
  
• the Radical Republican Plan
  

What describes the following statement? Former slaves & poor whites who worked a crop for a white landowner for a portion of the money made from the crop

• tenant farming
• sharecropping

The Time period after the Civil War when the country was being rebuilt was called...

• Rebuilding
• Reconstruction
• Realignment
• War of the States

Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction, developed in 1863, allowed for a state to be readmitted once...

• 50 percent of its voters swore oaths of allegiance to the US.
• the state legislature ratified the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
• 10 percent of its voters swore oaths of allegiance to the US.
• it abolished slavery.

What system of labor replaced slave labor following the Civil War?

• sharecropping
• indentured servitude
• government workers
• blockade running

Sharecropping can be compared to slavery because _______________________________.

• black sharecroppers were forced to work for their old masters.

• sharecroppers were chained to plows.

• sharecroppers were not allowed to leave the farm until all their debts were paid to the landowner

What was the ultimate goal of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• To give an economic boost to African Americans and poor whites by helping them learn to read and write through formal education.

• To help poor whites become educated.

• To create opportunities for poor whites.

• To educate all Southerners.