Reconstruction Era and Its Challenges Quick Check-In

What did the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution accomplish?

• Gave women the right to vote

• Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime

• Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States

• Prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude

What is the primary focus of the 14th Amendment?

• Abolishing slavery

• Granting women the right to vote

• Defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons

• Allowing 18-year-olds to vote

The 15th Amendment is best known for:

• Ending the Civil War

• Granting citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.

• Prohibiting the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

• Allowing women to vote

What was the primary goal of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To segregate the South

• To assist freed slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War

• To enforce the Jim Crow laws

• To establish schools for white children in the South

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was established with the primary aim of:

• Supporting the Reconstruction efforts

• Promoting African American businesses

• Opposing the Reconstruction policies and maintaining white supremacy

• Assisting in the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau

Sharecropping was a system that:

• Allowed former slaves to own the land they worked on

• Required farmers to share a portion of their crops with the landowner as rent

• Was a form of early industrialization in the South

• Encouraged the rapid economic development of the South

Which statement best describes the difference between sharecropping and tenant farming?

• Sharecropping involved paying rent in cash, while tenant farming involved paying rent with a share of the crop

• Tenant farming allowed individuals to rent land to farm, while sharecropping required individuals to work the owner's land in exchange for a share of the crops

• Sharecropping was a system used only by freed slaves, while tenant farming was available to anyone

• There is no significant difference; both terms mean the same thing

Which amendment is directly associated with the concept of "equal protection of the laws"?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Which is of these DO NOT BELONG as part of Post Civil War's Reconstruction Plans

• President Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Plans (13th Amendment)

• President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plans (Ratify 13th Amendment + State's Rights)

• The Ku Klux Klan's Reconstruction Plans (terrorized the South)

• Congressional (Radical Republican) Reconstruction Plan (13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments)

The Freedmen's Bureau was significant because it:

• Established the first public schools in the South for both African American and white children

• Was the first federal welfare agency

• Both A and B

• None of the above