Reconstruction

The Freedmen's Bureau was among the first federal organizations created for which purpose?

• enforce the nation's laws

• providing help to the poor

• controlling trade

• collecting taxes

The Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution expanded

• women's rights

• voting rights

• worker's rights

• consumer rights

What was one effect of Jim Crow laws in the southern United States?

• many white Southerners were unable to receive proper medical care

• African Americans gained significant influence over Southern politics

• African American schools received less funding than white schools

• many white Southerners struggled to find jobs that paid them well

What service was NOT provided by the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction in the South?

• distributing abandoned land to former slaves

• serving as local police forces

• providing food and clothes to those in need

• running hospitals and schools

How did the system of sharecropping work during Reconstruction?

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

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

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

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

What led to the development of sharecropping in the South during Reconstruction?

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  Large landowners wanted to help former slaves find farm work

• The federal government distributed farmland to former slaves

• Federal laws prohibited former slaves from owning land

• Former slaves were unable to buy their own land

Why was the Freedmen's Bureau necessary?

• Southern states needed help rebuilding infrastructure

• Former slaves were struggling to find food and shelter

• The federal government needed a federal police force

• Southern farm owners could not find enough workers

What did the Fourteenth Amendment establish in the United States?

• that states had the right to secede from the Union

• that states could not limit the rights of citzens

• that the right to vote was held by ALL men

• that the practice of slavery was illegal

What was the MAIN goal of Jim Crow laws passed during Reconstruction?

• to prevent African Americans from exercising their legal rights

• to help the government better represent African Americans

• to create economic opportunities for African Americans

• to protect African Americans from discrimination

Who gained the right vote when the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified?

• African American men

• all African Americans

• white women

• all women