SS8H6 Multiple Choice Review

1. What did the 13th Amendment do?

• Gave Black men the right to vote

• Ended slavery in the United States

• Granted citizenship to all born in the U.S.

• Created the Freedmen’s Bureau

2. What did the 14th Amendment guarantee?

• Free land to former slaves

• Equal protection and citizenship to all born in the U.S.

• Voting rights for women

• The right to serve in the military

3. What was the purpose of the 15th Amendment?

• To allow women to vote

• To end slavery in all states

• To give African American men the right to vote

• To lower the voting age

4. How did Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan differ from the Congressional plan?

• Lincoln’s plan was stricter

• Lincoln’s plan punished Southern leaders

• Lincoln’s plan was more lenient and wanted to reunite quickly

• Congress wanted to forgive the South

5. What was the main goal of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• To help former slaves and poor whites with food, education, and jobs

• To punish former slaveholders

• To create sharecropping laws

• To remove Black legislators from office

6. What was the main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction?

• To support the Freedmen’s Bureau

• To protect freedmen’s rights

• To stop African Americans from gaining political power

• To build schools for freed slaves

7. Why were Black legislators removed from the Georgia General Assembly during Reconstruction?

• They broke laws

• White legislators claimed they did not have the right to hold office

• They refused to vote

• They supported the KKK

8. What was the effect of removing Black legislators from the General Assembly?

• It expanded African American voting rights

• It strengthened equal rights laws

• It showed resistance to African American political involvement

• It increased support for Reconstruction

9. What was sharecropping?

• A way freedmen bought land

• A system where farmers worked land for a share of the crop

• A way of farming for profit

• Land ownership for all citizens

10. What is tenant farming?

• Farming without using land

• Renting land and keeping more of the harvest than sharecroppers

• Owning and selling land

• Growing crops on government land