Reconstruction Test

What amendment abolished slavery in 1865?

• The 15th

• The 13th

• The 19th

• The 21st

What did freed African Americans need after the war?

• Jobs

• Revenge

• Housing

• Education

• Nothing, they had everything they needed once they got freed

What did African Americans face even after slavery ended?

• Violence, intimidation, and discrimination

• Equality and acceptance

• Increased education but decreased housing

What was the system called that locked people into poverty?

• Freedom's First Generation

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Sharecropping

This was a government agency that provided food, schooling, and medical care for African Americans.

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Freedom's First Generation

• Sharecropping

• Emancipation Proclamation

Who was John Mercer Langston?

• A sailor and naval captain

• An abolitionist from Louisa County who was the President of Virginia State University

• A writer and man who founded the Red Cross

What is segregation?

• The government setting up programs to help people with housing

• The separation of people based on race or religion

• Treating someone unkindly

• An unfair difference in people

Who created the first public school system?

• White settlers

• African Americans

• Abolitionists

• John Mercer Langston

True or False: Everyone experienced Reconstruction in the same way

• True

• False

What were the laws called that legally established segregation in the southern United States?

• Discrimination Laws

• The 3/5 Compromise

• Jim Crow Laws

• The Prejudice Acts