Reconstruction Review

What did the 13th Amendment Do?

• Free the slaves

• Grant citizenship rights

• Give all men the right to vote

• Give all women the right to vote

What did the Freedmen's Bureau do after the Civil War?

• Help integrate schools between White students and African American students

• Provide general assistance to ONLY poor white farmers in the South

• Provide assistance to newly freed people and poor people across the South

• It gave former Confederate troops their land back

What main idea did the "Radical" Republicans support after the Civil War?

• African Americans and Women should not be able to vote

• African Americans needed to move from the South to the North

• Children needed to be at least 15 in order to work

• African Americans should have equal rights

What ended Reconstruction?

• The Civil Rights Act of 1871

• President Grant's Re-Election in 1872

• The Passing of the Reconstruction Acts in 1867

• The Compromise of 1877, a.k.a. the "Corrupt Bargain"

Why did Congress have a problem with President Andrew Johnson

• He cared little for the rights of African Americans

• He cared too much about the rights of African Americans

• He wanted to prevent Southerners from Voting

• He opposed the "Black Codes" passed by Southern States

What were the "Black Codes" passed by Southern State governments in 1865?

• Laws helping African Americans

• Laws that restricted the freedom of African Americans

• Laws the restricted the freedom of White Southerners

• Laws that helped the South rejoin the Union

What was the role of the US Military during Congressional Reconstruction?

• Wait for the Confederacy to attack again

• Wage war on the South after surrender

• Ensure that the rights of African Americans were respected by Southerners

• Ensure free trade with Great Britain

How did Ulysses S. Grant help African Americans during his administration?

• He used the military to fight the KKK through the Enforcement Acts

• He helped them all move to the North

• He made sure that schools would not be segregated

• He withdrew the military from the Southern States

After Southern Democrats were elected to office, what did the self-described "Redeemer" governments do?

• Make sure the 14th Amendment was law

• Pass discriminatory "Jim Crow" laws that segregated people due to race

• Forbid racial segregation and discrimination

• Rebel against President Hayes

During Congressional Reconstruction (1866-1876), what happened to the number of African Americans in Congress?

• It decreased

• It remained the same

• Nothing, they couldn't run for office

• It increased significantly