Reconstruction Review

What did the 13th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What was Reconstruction?

• equal treatment for all people
• the forced separation of races
• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
• the period of time after the Civil War

The US government created what organization to help former slaves and poor whites?

• Bureau of Parks and Recreation
• Free Food Bureau
• Jobs and Education Bureau
• Freedman's Bureau

Reconstruction was the process of

• rebuilding the South after the Civil War
• creating land zones for freedmen after the Civil War
• instituting Black Codes for former slaves
• eliminating the plantation economy in the South

Which of the following is true about sharecropping

• Sharecropping favored the freeedmen.

• Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping

• Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty

• Many state governments offered loan for sharecropping farmers.

What was the effect of the 13th Amendment?

• It put in place civil rights laws for African Americans.

• It made African Americans citizens.

• It freed all enslaved persons.

• It gave all male citizens the right to vote.

Literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and segregation were examples of:

• resistance by Southerners to allow African Americans to get ahead.

• resistance by Northerners to allow African Americans to get ahead.

• ways to help African Americans face their difficulties.

The effect of the 14th Amendment was that it:

• freed all enslaved people.

• imposed fines on the South for oppressing former enslaved people.

• gave males the right to vote regardless of race.

• made African Americans citizens.

The Constitution Amendment that gave blacks the right to vote

• 13th

• 16th

• 14th

• 15th

A law that legally segregated blacks and whites in public places

• Poll tax

• Literacy test

• Sharecropping

• Jim Crow Laws