Reconstruction Review

Fact or Fib: The Freedmen’s Bureau was created to help formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South after the Civil War.

• True

• False

Fact or Fib: Sharecropping kept many freedmen and poor whites in a cycle of debt and poverty.

• True

• False

Fact or Fib: Poll taxes were outlawed by the Fifteenth Amendment.

• True

• False

Many literacy tests included impossible questions designed to disqualify freedmen.

• True

• False

Carpetbaggers were wealthy Southern plantation owners who tried to reclaim power during Reconstruction.

• True

• False

Fact or Fib: The Freedmen’s Bureau only provided food and medical aid, but it did not help with education.

• True

• False

Fact or Fib: Sharecropping farmers were trapped in a cycle of debt, making it nearly impossible to gain financial independence.

• True

• False

How were Radical Republicans tough on former Confederate leaders?

• They were banned from re-entering the Union

• They couldn't hold political office anymore

• They had to pledge loyalty to the Confederacy

• They were sentenced to death

What was the purpose of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?

• To ensure the protection of newly freedmen's Civil Rights

• To end Reconstruction

• To end slavery

• To grant newly freedmen the right to vote.

What was the purpose of the Freemen's Bureau?

• To provide money for the newly freed African Americans

• To end slavery and ensure freedmen have more rights

• Help African Americans adjust to life after slavery.