Reconstruction Era Review

This amendment abolished slavery

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

What was the purpose of the Black Codes after the Civil War?

• To provide services for newly freed African Americans

• To help African Americans exercise their rights

• To limit the rights of African Americans

• To help white farmers exercise their rights

Which workers in the South rented farms and paid rent with cash or crops?

• Tenant farmers

• Plantation owners

• Slaves

• Sharecroppers

Why did poor white people and freed African Americans get involved with sharecropping?

• They enjoyed farming.

• They wanted to become wealthy.

• They had little money to buy or rent land.

• They could have returned to plantations that needed workers.

Which group of people were known as Freedmen?

• African American slaves who ran away from their owners.

• Northern whites who came to form governments in the southern states.

• Southern whites who tried to frighten African Americans

• Slaves who were freed at the end of the Civil War.

What laws replaced Black Codes and encouraged segregation in the South?

• Marshall Laws

• Reconstruction laws

• "Jim Crow" laws

• Segregation Laws

Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?

• Nathan Bedford Forrest
• John Wilkes Booth
• Henry Clay
• John Breckinridge

What group in Congress felt that Lincoln's plan was too lenient?

• Deciduous Democrats
• Radical Republicans
• Wistful Whigs
• Fancy Federalists

These were laws that made it illegal for African Americans to live or work in certain areas and allowed whites to arrest African Americans who were not working.  Once arrested they would be forced to work for white landowners. 

• Freedman's Bureau
• Reconstruction
• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws

The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War. 

• Reconstruction
• Freedman's Bureau
• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws