Standard 1.1 & 1.2

The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction was to

• prevent African Americans from exercising their rights.

• gain control of state legislatures.

• restore the Confederacy.

• improve conditions for poor whites.

The Fourteenth Amendment was part of a series of laws that

• ensured the civil rights of African Americans.

• shifted the balance of power in favor of the Supreme Court.

• changed the way a President could hire government officials.

• restored the balance of power between the President and Congress.

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 did the 15th 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 were Jim Crow Laws?

• equal treatment for all people
• laws that made segregation legal
• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
• the period of time after the Civil War

Laws that required the African-Americans be separated from white in public places are...

• Jim Crow Laws
• Black Codes
• Grandfather Codes
• Integration Laws

What group was created in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, for the purpose of preventing both the programs of Reconstruction and laws promoting racial equality?

• Freedman's Bureau

• Ku Klux Klan

• Know Nothing Party

• White Circle Council

The period of rebuilding of The South after The Civil War was known as

• The Renaissance

• Reconstruction

• The Guilded Age

• The Industrial Revolution

Which of the following reconstruction plans was put in place?

• The Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Lincoln's 10% Plan

• The Wade-Davis Bill

• Andrew Johnson's plan for reconstruction

The division of power between a central government and state governments is called

• The United States
• the Supremacy Clause
• the Necessary and Proper Clause
• federalism