Reconstruction

Which of the following amendments abolished slavery?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Which of the following amendments gave African American men the right to vote?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Which of the following amendments granted African Americans equal rights of citizenship?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Why was Abraham Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan sometimes called “The 10% Plan?”

• It called for a 10% tax on Southern products to pay their Civil War debts.

• 10% of each Southern state’s voters were required to pledge loyalty to the United States and support freeing slaves before that state joined the Union.

• Southern states would be required to provide employment for 10% of the freed Blacks in their population.

• It called for a 10% tax on products purchased at stores.

Which of the following is a restriction that was put on African Americans?

• Which of the following is a restriction that was put on African Americans?

• Having a fair trial

• No doctor visits

• Not being able to go to school

What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v Ferguson?

• Segregation is legal as the separate facilities are equal

• Poll taxes and literacy tests were unconstitutional

• Jim Crow laws were unconstitutional

• Sharecropping was a form of slave labor

What was the Ku Klux Klan?

• A group of Southern Democrat politicians that supported the rights of freed Blacks.

• A group of Republican U.S. Senators that opposed returning to the Union.

• White supremacists who terrorized Black people across the South.

• Former Union soldiers who opposed Southern re-entry into the Union.

What were the Black Codes?

• A written code system used by freed Blacks in the South to secretly communicate with and assist the Black slaves of Haiti who were planning a revolution against white French plantation owners.

• A code of conduct freed Black people created to ensure community-wide respect, fairness, and inclusion.

• Laws passed in the South that limited the rights of free Black people.

• Laws passed in the South that guaranteed the civil rights of all Black people.

“Jim Crow” was—

• A nickname given to any free Black man running for political office in the South.

• The free Black man

• A former Confederate soldier who led Southerners in supporting the rights of free Black people.

• A time in which white supremacists took power across the South, segregation became the norm, and Southern states found ways to take away new rights of Black citizens.

African Americans were providing with food, clothes and education during Reconstruction by the:

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow

• 15th Amendment

• Freedman’s Bureau