USII.3b

Why did southern states adopt Black Codes? Choose 2.

• To limit economic freedom for former slaves

• To increase economic freedom for former slaves

• To limit physical freedom for all people

• To limit freedom for former slaves

What did former Confederate states need to do prior to being admitted to the United States?

• Hold conventions to determine if they should stay a slave state

• Hold conventions to vote if they wanted to rejoin the Union

• Hold conventions to write a new constitution that adopted the 14th Amendment

• Hold conventions to give input on how valid the 14th Amendment was

Choose true or false for the following information on Reconstruction.

Groups:

(a) True

,

(b) False

• Most white Southerners welcomed the efforts of Reconstruction by the federal government.

• During Reconstruction Federal troops were sent to supervise the Southern states

• The Freedman's Bureau was established to help former slave in the South.

• During Reconstruction Southern states were eager to give economic freedom to former slaves.

• During Reconstruction, state governments made laws to create pblic education for former slaves.

In the early 1870's, most states started to come under control of the (a)  

• Democrats
• Republicans
• Federalists

What agency was created to aid former enslaved African Americans in the South?

• Farmer's Bureau

• Freedman's Bureau

• Finance Bureau

• Federal Bureau of Investigation

What was the purpose of Reconstruction?

• An attempt to maintain slavery in the South following the Civil War.

• An attempt to limit the physical freedoms of free and formerly enslaved African Americans.

• An attempt to create legal equality for free and formerly enslaved African Americans.

• An attempt to move all free and formerly enslaved African Americans out of the South an into the North.

What of these was not an Amendment written during Reconstruction that laid the legal foundation for equality of all Americans?

• 13th-The abolishment of slavery

• 14th-Equal protection under the Constitution for all United States citizens

• 15th-No voting discrimination based on race

• 16th-Income tax became legal

Why did Reconstruction end?

• The federal government ran out of money to pay for troops in the South.

• Free and formerly enslaved African Americans had successfully gotten equal rights with white citizens.

• The South agreed to keep making things better for formerly enslaved African Americans.

• A compromise after the election of 1876.

Rights that African Americans had​ (a)   were​ (b)  

through​ (c)   laws that ​ (d)   black and white Southerners from one another.

• gained
• lost
• "Jim Crow"
• segregated
• Freedman's Bureau
• Northerners

Reorder the following

• Reconstruction ended

• Reconstruction began

• 14th Amendment

  15th Amendment

• Southern states wrote new constitutions that prevented African American men from voting

• 13th Amendment