RECONSTRUCTION

Literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes were enacted by Southern States to

• limit the movement of African Americans

• make it more difficult for African Americans to vote

• improve the lives of African Americans

• give more educational opportunities to African Americans.

What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution?

• To punish the South for seceding from the Union.

• To grant basic rights to formerly enslaved persons.

• To allow the states to veto federal laws.

• To create a segregated society.

Black Codes were established in the South immediately after the Civil War in an effort to

• welcome newly freed slaves into American society

• enforce the Emancipation Proclamation

• expand educational opportunities to newly freed slaves

• limit the rights of newly freed slaves

Which amendment granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th

What group was established to aid former enslaved African Americans in the South?

• Sharecroppers
• Congress
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Carpetbaggers

This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.

• 13th

• 15th

• 16th

• 14th

This is a system of labor in which a landowner rents land to a tenant. In return, the tenant shares a portion of the crop grown back to the landowner at the end of the season.

• Poll Taxes

• Black Codes

• Sharecropping

• Convict Leasing

Many southern states created these which required individuals to pay a tax before they could vote.

• Black Codes

• Voter Fees

• Literacy Tests

• poll taxes

This was a nickname given to northerners by southerners. These were northerners

who moved south during the Reconstruction era, possibly to make money.

• Scalawags

• Sharecroppers

• Jim Crow

• Carpetbaggers

This government agency helped former slaves by building schools and hospitals, training teachers, and providing food and clothing.

• Social Security

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Monroe Doctrine

• Black Codes