Reconstruction Review

The Thirteenth Amendment effectively completed the work that began with which government law or decision?

• the Fugitive Slave Act

• the Missouri Compromise

• the Great Compromise

• The Emancipation Proclamation

How did Southern state governments react to the work of the Freedmen's

Bureau?

• They made the work difficult by passing Jim Crow laws.

• They made the work difficult by outlawing sharecropping

• They helped the bureau by registering former slaves to vote.

• They helped the bureau by donating land for new universities

What was the goal of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• to help unmarried men find jobs and protect the environment

• to provide electricity and help control floods in Tennessee

• to create jobs by building roads and bridges in the South

• to provide housing and medical care to former slaves

The Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution expanded

• consumer rights

• workers' rights.

• voting rights

• women's rights.

What was common in the sharecropping system in the post–Civil War

South?

• Sharecroppers combined their new lands to grow more crops.

• Sharecroppers kept most of their crops in their own communities.

• Sharecroppers sold their crops to plantation owners to buy more land.

• Sharecroppers had to give landowners crops in return for the right to

  farm.

One intention of the Jim Crow laws passed in many southern states was

to

• create segregated public schools.

• force the closure of most plantations.

• outlaw the practice of sharecropping.

• help fund Reconstruction-era public works.

Which constitutional amendment, or amendments, expanded the effects

of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• the Fifteenth Amendment only

• the Thirteenth Amendment only

• the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments

• the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments

After the Civil War, sharecropping in the United States was MOST helpful

to

• Landowners

• former slaves

• farm workers

• veterans

Why was the Freedmen's Bureau created

• to run state and local governments in the South

• to assist in the industrialization of the Southern states

• to punish Southern states for their role in the Civil War

• to provide aid to former slaves and poor whites in the South

During the Jim Crow era, southern leaders prevented many African

Americans from voting by

• canceling elections.

• using secret ballots.

• requiring special tests.

• printing fake news articles.