Reconstruction Era

Match the following

• laws that limited the new freedom of freedmen

• 15th Amendment

• granted citizenship to African Americans, all Americans were to be treated equally under the law

• Freedmen's Bureau

• worked to help freedmen

• 13th Amendment

• abolished slavery, African Americans were free to move wherever they wanted

• 14th Amendment

• African Americans males were allowed to vote

• Black Codes

True or False

The South was in financial ruins after the Civil War

• True

• False

Poll taxes

Literacy tests

Grandfather clauses

The measures in this list are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the -

• Compromise of 1850

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Dred Scott v. Sandford decision

Who was the first African American Senator?

• Frederick Douglass

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Sojourner Truth

• Booker T. Washington

Southern states passed the codes described in this excerpt in order to —

• limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments

• increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North

• decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress

• improve relations with the Democratic Party

How were former Confederate leaders treated under the Radical Reconstruction plan?

• They were denied citizenship because it was believed they had started the war.

• They were required to enlist in the U.S. Army for two years.

• They were allowed to obtain federal loans to help restore the cotton industry.

• They were denied the ability to obtain political positions.

How did President Lincoln succeed in permanently abolishing the practice represented by the tree in this cartoon?

• By ordering the use of popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery

• By encouraging an armed rebellion of slaves in the South

• By promoting the passage and ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment

• By helping abolitionists fund the Underground Railroad

Which breakthrough did Hiram Rhodes Revels accomplish during Reconstruction?

• He became the first African American to publish literature

• He became the first African American to build wealth as a carpetbagger

• He became the first African American to win a seat in the U.S. Congress.

• He became the first African American soldier to serve in an integrated Union Army unit

Based on the excerpt and your knowledge of U.S. history, why did the Memphis Massacre occur?

• The lack of protections for African Americans following the Civil War.

• Corruption by political parties in the North.

• Economic struggles of African American former Union soldiers.

• The loss of voting rights for white men in the South.

Based on the excerpt and your knowledge of U.S. history, which outcome was President Johnson trying to prevent?

• The abolition of slavery within the country and in all territories under government control

• Granting citizenship and equal protection under the law to all person born in the country

• The use of government resources to protect the rights of citizens to practice any religion of their choice

• Protecting the rights of individuals to bear arms and assemble in peaceful protest