Jackson Reconstruction Test

What was one reason the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution were considered important landmarks?

• brought the Civil War to an end
• created the Freedmen's Bureau
• established procedures for impeaching the president
• granted newly freed enslaved people the right of citizenship and the right to vote

How did the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution bring the United States closer to its goal of giving the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to all people?

• pardoning Confederate soldiers
• giving women the right to vote
• outlawing slavery
• eliminating immigration quotas

What were some of the services provided by the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• freeing enslaved people
• to feed, clothe, and educate former enslaved people
• to move former slaves to the northern states
• to ensure that former enslaved people had the right to own land

Why did President Abraham Lincoln want Reconstruction to be simple and easy?

• 1. thought the United States would look bad to the rest of the world

• 1. to win Southern votes in his reelection campaign

• 1. to speed up the rebuilding of towns and factories

• 1. to end the war quickly

What was the purpose of the Black Codes?

• 1. to give the former slaves land

• 1. to restrict the freedom of former slaves

• 1. to administer punishment for runaway slaves

• 1. to provide laws for the new immigrants in our state

What was the main purpose of the Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction?

• to help the south rebuild railroads
• to rewrite the United States Constitution
• to protect the rights of newly freed enslaved people
• to welcome back the ex-Confederate states

Why did planters enter into sharecropping agreements with their former slaves?

• They needed workers to plant and harvest crops
• They felt an obligation to give jobs to freedmen
• The federal government required that they give jobs to freedmen
• They wanted to provide charity to their former enslaved people

Which of the following statements best describes the political role of the planter elite during Reconstruction?

• They continued to dominate the government of South Carolina.
• They refused to be a part of the Republican government.
• They agreed to give small farmers and freedmen equal representation.
• They cooperated with carpetbaggers and scalawags.

During Reconstruction, what was the economic impact on small farmers in South Carolina?

• They left their farms for jobs in textile mills in the towns.
• They were no longer able to compete with large landowners.
• They turned from the planting of cotton to other cash crops.
• They now had to compete with African American sharecroppers.

What types of people were described as "scalawags" during the Reconstruction Era?

• newly freed slaves who competed for jobs with poor whites

• northern citizens who moved south to rebuild the economy

• war veterans who refused to return to civilian life

• southerners who cooperated with Republicans politicians