Reconstruction Test Review

Farming someone else's land while paying a share of the crops raised for rent.

• Black Codes

• Radical Republicans

• Sharecropping

• Slavey

Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed African Americans.

• Black Codes

• Reconstruction Era

• Sharecropping

• Freedmen's Bureau

The following amendment

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

What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To enforce segregation laws

• To promote the colonization of Africa

• To assist newly freed African Americans and white refugees

• To provide financial support to former slave owners

What were the Black Codes?

• Laws passed by Northern states to protect the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.

• Laws passed by the federal government to promote equality for African Americans after the Civil War.

• Laws passed by Southern states to promote the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.

• Laws passed by Southern states to restrict the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.

What were the main goals of Reconstruction?

• Reunite the country, rebuild the Southern economy, ensure the rights and freedom of former slaves

• Maintain the division between the North and South, weaken the Southern economy, ignore the rights of former slaves

• Punish the Southern states, establish a new government in the South, restrict the rights of former slaves

• Promote slavery, dismantle the Southern economy, deny the rights of former slaves

What were the three main amendments passed during Reconstruction?

• 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment, 20th Amendment, 21st Amendment

• 16th Amendment, 17th Amendment, 18th Amendment

• 10th Amendment, 11th Amendment, 12th Amendment

This stated that anyone born in the U.S. was a citizen and that all U.S. citizens were to be given equal protection under the law.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Bill of Rights

These laws enforced segregation of blacks and whites in public places like schools, transportation, restaurants and restrooms.

• Poll Taxes

• Compromise of 1877

• Freedman's Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws

Laws that limited the liberties and freedoms of the former slaves.

• Sharecropping

• Black Codes

• Military Reconstruction Act

• 15th Amendment