Rebuilding

Which of the following statements would MOST likely represent most white landowners during Reconstruction?

• We need slaves to harvest our crops.

• Slaves are needed for running businesses

• Slaves are people and need the right to vote

• We need to create laws that include African Americans

Which of the following was a result of the Civil War in the South?

• Many people moved to Europe.

• Slavery continued to be allowed in the South.

• Many homes and farms were completely destroyed.

• All slaves were sent back to Africa and Barbados.

Which BEST describes the way the Fourteenth Amendment affected the states?

• States could no longer institute poll taxes or tests for citizens before they voted.

• States had to pass laws that gave more rights to freed slaves than to other citizens.

• States could no longer make any laws that were not approved by the federal government.

• States had to give all citizens, regardless of their race or religion, equal protection under

  the law.

Which is the BEST example of how Reconstruction affected politics in the South in the late

1800s?

• Many African Americans moved to cities in search of work in factories.

• The Freedmen's Bureau was created to provide clothing, food, water, health care,

  education, and jobs for ex-slaves.

• Many African Americans turned to a life of sharecropping to provide for their families after

  slavery was abolished.

• Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed voting rights for African Americans and

  gave them a greater voice in government.

Which group of people was MOST negatively affected by the abolition of slavery?

• African Americans

• Native Americans

• Sahrecroppers

• Southern Elite