Reconstruction Review

If you had been a White Southerner during this time, what would your goal(s) have been for Reconstruction?

• I would want my life to return to as normal as possible with very little change.
• I would want equal voting rights for all African Americans.
• I would want President Lincoln to follow through with his plan to abolish slavery.
• I would want to extend the Freedman’s Bureau to protect the rights of African Americans.

Many Southerners felt that carpetbaggers were people who moved from the North to ______________.

• help promote Johnson’s Reconstruction plan.
• build schools and churches with the Freedman’s Bureau.
• economically take advantage of Southerners devastated by the war.
• join the KKK and promote the Black Codes.

What was the aim or aims of African Americans during Reconstruction? 

• Reunite with their families
• Enjoy the freedom that had been denied to them
• Establish strong communities and places to worship
• All of these

How did the 13^th amendment protect the rights of African Americans and improve their opportunities?

• African American men were able to hold political office. 
• African American men were able vote. 
• A.  African Americans were freed. 
• A.  African Americans were made citizens, thus gaining “equal protection under the law.” 

How did the 14^th amendment protect the rights of African Americans and improve their opportunities?

• African American men were able to hold political office. 
• African American men were able vote. 
• A.  African Americans were freed. 
• A.  African Americans were made citizens, thus gaining “equal protection under the law.” 

How did the 15^th amendment protect the rights of African Americans and improve their opportunities?

• African American men were able to hold political office. 
• African American men were able vote. 
• A.  African Americans were freed. 
• A.  African Americans were made citizens, thus gaining “equal protection under the law.” 

How did the Freedman’s Bureau impact the lives of African Americans? 

• It helped former slaves find family members sold as slaves.
• It gave them money to travel west and find jobs.
• It provided them food, clothing, education, and medical care. 
• It guaranteed them the right to vote.

 Which was a system used in the South after the Civil War in which farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner back with a certain amount of money they made from selling their crops?

• feudalism
• Freedman’s Bureau 
• sharecropping
• segregation

 After Reconstruction, blacks were not allowed to sit in the same areas at the theater as whites. They had to sit in the back part of the theater, while whites sat at the front of the theater. This is an example of:

• desegregation 
• integration
• segregation
• reconstruction

Because of the rise of discriminatory groups such as the KKK, the rights and opportunities of newly freed African Americans were affected.  What is one way they were affected?

• African Americans were terrorized and intimidated. 
• African Americans were able to vote. 
• African Americans were free to build communities and reunite with families. 
• African Americans were able to sign sharecropping agreements.