Reconstruction Unit

What was the purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment?

• to provide equal rights to citizens

• to secure voting rights

• to outlaw poll taxes

• to end slavery

What did the Fourteenth Amendment establish in the United States?

• that the practice of slavery was illegal

• that the right to vote was held by all men

• that states could not limit the rights of citizens

• that states had the right to secede from the Union

Use the information to answer the question.

 

"I believe that the state of Georgia's new speech law limits my rights as a citizen"

                       -Wendy Duncan, Georgia Resident

 

Which amendment can the citizen claim protests her rights?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Which two groups was the Freedmen's Bureau formed to help?

• American Indians and immigrants

• former enslaved people and poor whites

• injured Union and Confederate soldiers

• farmers and factory workers

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

What key factor prevented the Freedmen's Bureau from accomplishing its goals?

• lack of constitutional protections for former slaves

• refusal of American Indians to leave their homelands

• violence directed toward African Americans in the South

• the redirection of resources to the settlement of the West

Who benefited the MOST from the system of sharecropping after the Civil War?

• farm workers

• former slaves

• landowners

• veterans

How did the system of sharecropping work during Reconstruction?

• The government took land away from plantation owners and gave it to former slaves.

• Landowners agreed to pay farmers a fair wage for helping to harvest crops in their fields.

• Landowners allowed farmers to use their fields in exchange for a share of the crop they grew.

• The government paid landowners who were willing to hire poor farmers in search of work.

What was one reason sharecropping was considered a new form of slavery?

• The farmers, who were mostly former slaves, were not allowed to leave the farms for any reason.

• The farmers, who were mostly former slaves, were not granted land of their own by the government or landowner.

• The farmers, who were mostly former slaves, usually owed money to the landowner and had to keep working for them.

• The farmers, who were mostly former slaves, usually paid off their debts to the landowners but could not move their families.

What was the main goal of Jim Crow laws and practices?

• To keep whites and African Americans separate in public places

• To prevent whites from doing hurtful things to African Americans

• To keep whites and African Americans together in all areas of society

• To prevent laws from being passed that would hurt African Americans