Reconstruction

What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To provide financial support to Southern plantation owners

• To promote the expansion of slavery in the United States

• To assist newly freed African Americans and white refugees after the Civil War.

Which amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States?

• Tenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

What were the consequences of the Black Codes?

• Continuation of racial discrimination, denial of civil rights, establishment of a system similar to slavery

• Integration of different races, equal distribution of civil rights, elimination of slavery.

• Promotion of racial equality, protection of civil rights, eradication of slavery.

What was the main goal of sharecropping?

• To establish a system of land ownership for former slaves.

• To provide labor and land for agricultural production in exchange for a share of the crops produced.

• To promote economic equality among farmers.

What were the effects of Jim Crow Laws?

• The effects of Jim Crow Laws included the promotion of racial equality, the creation of integrated facilities for African Americans, and the empowerment of their political and economic power.

• The effects of Jim Crow Laws included the perpetuation of racial inequality, the creation of separate and unequal facilities for African Americans, and the suppression of their political and economic power.

• The effects of Jim Crow Laws included the eradication of racial inequality, the creation of equal facilities for African Americans, and the enhancement of their political and economic power.

What was the impact of the 13th Amendment on the Reconstruction Era?

• The 13th Amendment abolished slavery and had a significant impact on the Reconstruction Era.

• The 13th Amendment increased the power of the Southern states during the Reconstruction Era.

• The 13th Amendment led to increased racial tensions during the Reconstruction Era.

What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

• To grant citizenship and equal rights to all individuals born in the United States, regardless of race or color.

• To establish separate but equal facilities for individuals of different races.

• To restrict the rights of individuals born in the United States based on race or color.

What was the impact of the 15th Amendment on voting rights?

• The 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote and prohibited racial discrimination in voting.

• The 15th Amendment was repealed and voting rights were restricted again.

• The 15th Amendment granted voting rights to all minority groups.

What Reconstruction Plan allowed southern states to reenter the Union if 10% of their state swore allegiance to the United States?

• Lincoln's Plan

• Radical Republican Reconstrcution

• Compromise of 1877

What officially ended Reconstruction in the United States?

• Lincoln's Plan

• Radical Republican Reconstruction

• Compromise of 1877