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WorksheetsReconstruction Unit 5
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
What was the main goal of reconstruction?
to reunite the North with the South
to make wealthy landowners buy crops
to make the South leave the union
to help the South win the Civil War
Why were the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments added to the Constitution after the Civil War?
The amendments were all created to ONLY empower wealthy landowners and farmers.
The amendments worked together to guarantee equal rights for African Americans.
All of the above
None of the above
Why did the U.S. Congress need to establish the Freedman's Bureau after the Civil War?
to guarantee that women would have the right to vote and bear arms
President Lincoln and George Washington wanted to create another union with Southern States only.
to protect newly freed slaves
How did Southern beliefs hinder the work of the Freedman's Bureau?
The South passed Jim Crow laws and kept inequalities firmly in place.
The Freedman's Bureau was nearly impossible to establish due to the lack of money to help grow crops for Northerns.
Southerns believed that slavery should be illegal.
Which amendment guaranteed that states could not limit the rights of citizens and could not take away life, liberty, or property without due process?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
None of the above
What was the purpose of the 13th Amendment?
to make slavery illegal in the United States
to make slavery legal again in all states in the North and South
to ensure that all women could have the right to vote
What was the purpose of the 15th Amendment?
to ONLY allow women the right to vote
to allow ALL citizens the right to vote regardless of color or race
to enable the Jim Crow laws to become more strictly enforced in the South
to abolish slavery
Look at the picture.
What is depicted in the picture?
Sharecropping
Freedman's Bureau
Jim Crow Laws
15th Amendment
How did Jim Crow laws restrict the new freedoms of African Americans?
Jim Crow laws enabled slaves to be united with other people from other races
Jim Crow laws help to make segregation illegal in the South
The laws legalized discrimination through a policy called segregation.
None of the above
How was slavery replaced by sharecropping?
Sharecropping was used to protect the rights of former slaves and give them as much land as they wanted.
Sharecropping did NOT replace slavery in any kind of way.
Sharecropping gave them more independence, but slaves were still in debt.
How would today's society be different if the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments did not exist?
Slavery would be illegal.
All citizens could not vote.
Slavery would be legal
States would be able to limit the rights of citizens.
African Americans would be able to vote and own any land they wanted to own without the state being able to take it away.
