Reconstruction Era Review

What was the purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment?

• to provide equal rights to citizens

• to secure voting rights

• to end slavery

What did the Fourteenth Amendment establish in the United States?

• that the practice of slavery was illegal

• that the right to vote was held by all men

• that states could not limit the rights of citizens

Use the information to answer the question. Which amendment can the citizen claim protests her rights?

"I believe that the state of Georgia's new speech law limits my rights as a citizen"

                       -Wendy Duncan, Georgia Resident

 

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Which of the following was founded by the U.S. government to provide housing, medical care, and education to former, enslaved people and poor white people in the South during Reconstruction?

• The Former Slaves Bureau

• Freedmen's Bureau

• The American Red Cross

What was the goal of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• to provide electricity and help control floods in Tennessee

• to create jobs by building roads and bridges in the South

• to provide housing and medical care to former slaves

What key factor prevented the Freedmen's Bureau from accomplishing its goals?

• lack of constitutional protections for former slaves

• refusal of American Indians to leave their homelands

• violence directed toward African Americans in the South

Who benefited the MOST from the system of sharecropping after the Civil War?

• farm workers

• former slaves

• landowners

How did the system of sharecropping work during Reconstruction?

• The government took land away from plantation owners and gave it to former slaves.

• Landowners allowed farmers to use their fields in exchange for a share of the crop they grew.

• The government paid landowners who were willing to hire poor farmers in search of work.

What was one reason sharecropping was considered a new form of slavery?

• The farmers, who were mostly former slaves, were not allowed to leave the farms for any reason.

• The farmers, who were mostly former slaves, were not granted land of their own by the government or landowner.

• The farmers, who were mostly former slaves, usually owed money to the landowner and had to keep working for them.

What was the main goal of Jim Crow laws and practices?

• To keep white people and African Americans separate in public places

• To keep white people and African Americans together in all areas of society

• To prevent laws from being passed that would hurt African Americans