Reconstruction - Post Jigsaw Activity Quiz

What was the primary purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau established in 1865?

• To enforce Jim Crow laws in the South

• To provide aid and assistance to former slaves and poor whites

• To collect taxes from Southern states

• To organize military districts

The Black Codes were designed to:

• Protect African American rights

• Promote racial equality

• Ensure cheap labor from freed slaves

• Support Black education

Which amendment granted African Americans the right to vote?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

The term "carpetbagger" referred to:

• Southern Republicans who supported Reconstruction

• Former Confederate soldiers

• Northern whites who moved to the South after the Civil War

• Freed slaves who became politicians

The Compromise of 1877 resulted in:

• Increased rights for African Americans

• The end of Reconstruction

• The creation of the Freedmen's Bureau

• The passage of new civil rights laws

The Plessy v. Ferguson decision established:

• Voting rights for all citizens

• Integration of public facilities

• The end of slavery

• The "separate but equal" doctrine

Sharecropping was a system that:

• Provided land ownership to freed slaves

• Created equal economic opportunities

The Ku Klux Klan primarily targeted:

• Republicans and African Americans

• Carpetbaggers only

• Confederate veterans

• Northern business owners

"Scalawags" were:

• Northern abolitionists

• Former slaves

• Southern whites who supported Reconstruction

• Confederate loyalists

President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan:

• Supported strong federal control of the South

• Required Southern states to ratify the 15th Amendment

• Gave voting rights to African Americans

• Allowed Southern states significant autonomy