Reconstruction Check Your Understanding

What was the main goal of the Reconstruction Era?

• Rebuilding the US after the Civil War

• Rebuilding cities after an earthquake.

• Hurting the feelings of people who disagreed

• Constructing new ways of working

Which group of people were known as Freedmen?

• African American slaves who ran away from their owners.

• Northern whites who came to form governments in the southern states.

• Southern whites who tried to frighten African Americans

• Slaves who were freed at the end of the Civil War.

This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...

• establish churches to provide aid in the Southern states.

• reunify the former Confederate States and to craft a plan to readmit them to the Union.

• establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.

• abolish former Confederate governments and to punish former Confederate leaders.

What was the purpose of the Black Codes after the Civil War?

• To provide services for newly freed African Americans

• To help African Americans exercise their rights

• To limit the rights of African Americans

• To help white farmers exercise their rights

Constitution amendments adopted during Reconstruction were intended to _______________

• limit the number of terms of the president

• correct problems with the electoral college system

• end property and religious qualifications for voting

• provide legal and political rights for African Americans

What amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

• The 15th Amendment

• The 14th Amendment

• The 13th Amendment

• The 12th Amendment

Which of the following amendments recognized African Americans citizenship and offered equal protection under the law?

• The 13th Amendment

• The 14th Amendment

• The 15th Amendment

• The Bill of Rights

This amendment gave African American men the right to vote

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

How did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments protect the rights of African Americans?

• Northern states had to follow these three amendments otherwise they could be arrested.

• Southern states had to follow these three amendments or otherwise they could be arrested.

• The Constitution now gave white Americans new rights.

• The Constitution now stated that African Americans had to be offered the same opportunities as whites.

Which workers in the South rented farms and paid rent with cash or crops?

• Tenant farmers

• Plantation owners

• Slaves

• Sharecroppers