Reconstruction

Who gained the right to vote when the 15th Amendment was ratified?

• A. African American men

• B. all African Americans

• C. white women

• D. all women

Why did wealthy landowners start the system of sharecropping?

• They needed workers for factory jobs.

• They wanted cheap labor for their farms.

• They needed citizens to have more rights.

• They wanted more railroads to move goods.

Which of the following was ONE goal of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• to provide medicine to Confederate soldiers

• to build roads and bridges on the Oregon Trail

• to help formerly enslaved people find new jobs

• to stop the forced relocation of American Indians

Denying someone the right to vote is known as _______________.

• abolish

• disenfranchise
• illiteracy

• Integrate

The Freedmen’s Bureau was created to help _____________ adjust to life after the Civil War and the end of slavery.

• plantation owners

• white Union soldiers

• northern factory owners

• formerly enslaved people

The __ __________ provided citizenship to African Americans who had been enslaved.

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Who benefited the MOST from the system of sharecropping after the Civil War?

• veterans

• landowners

• farm workers

• Freedmen’s Bureau

What was the purpose of the 13th Amendment?

• to provide equal rights to citizens

• to secure voting rights

• to outlaw poll taxes

• to end slavery

What was the main goal of Jim Crow laws?

• to keep whites and African Americans separate in public places

• to prevent whites from doing hurtful things to African Americans

• to keep whites and African Americans together in all public places

• to stop laws from being passed that would hurt African Americans

Use the information to answer the question.

“I believe that Georgia’s new anti-speech law limits my rights as a citizen.” -Randa Oliver, Georgia Resident.

Which amendment says states cannot make laws that violate the rights of its citizens?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment