African American Studies Unit 3 Quiz #1

What was the primary aim of the Reconstruction Amendments?

• To secure citizenship and rights for formerly enslaved African Americans

• To promote free market policies in the South

• To establish new territorial boundaries

• To centralize state governments

Which amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision by establishing birthright citizenship?

• The Fourteenth Amendment

• The Thirteenth Amendment

• The Fifteenth Amendment

• The Seventeenth Amendment

What did the Fifteenth Amendment specifically prohibit?

• Denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous servitude

• Denying the right to free speech

• Denying the right to bear arms

• Denying the right to equal education

How did Black political participation change during Reconstruction?

• Thousands of Black men began serving in public office

• Voting was immediately universal for all races

• Black voters controlled all Southern legislatures

• There was little to no change in political participation

In what year was the Freedmen’s Bureau established?

• 1865

• 1867

• 1870

• 1872

Besides education, what essential services did the Freedmen’s Bureau provide?

• Clothing, food, and legal recognition of marriages

• Financial loans for business startups

• Military protection from local militias

• Land redistribution to white citizens

How did the legacy of the domestic slave trade affect Black families?

• It caused forced separations and disrupted kinship ties

• It led to improved family unity

• It resulted in the creation of new legal marriage systems

• It fostered immediate post-war economic prosperity

Black Codes were enacted to:

• Reestablish pre-war social controls over African Americans

• Grant full civil rights to freedmen

• Ensure integration in public schools

• Promote industrial growth in the South

Which system allowed Black farmers to receive supplies on credit, often leading to a cycle of debt?

• Crop liens

• Sharecropping

• Tenant farming

• Wage labor

Convict leasing involved:

• Hiring out imprisoned African Americans for forced labor

• Providing legal representation for prisoners

• Offering vocational training in prisons

• Allowing prisoners to choose their employers