Reconstruction

SS.912.A.2.4 Distinguish the freedoms guaranteed to Africans Americans and other groups with the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution​

Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

• SS.912.A.2.2:  Assess the influence of significant people or groups on Reconstruction.​

• What was the main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To provide financial loans to Southern states

• To assist freed slaves by providing food, housing, and education

• To negotiate peace treaties with Native American tribes

• To enforce the draft during the Civil War

• SS.912.A.2.4 Distinguish the freedoms guaranteed to Africans Americans and other groups with the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution​

• Which amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the United States?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

SS.912.A.2.2:  Assess the influence of significant people or groups on Reconstruction

The Compromise of 1877 resulted in

• The end of slavery

• The beginning of the Civil War

• The withdrawal of federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction

• The passage of the Emancipation Proclamation

SS.912.A.2.2:  Assess the influence of significant people or groups on Reconstruction.​

What was the primary goal of the Jim Crow Laws enacted in Southern states after the Civil War?

• To promote racial equality

• To restrict the rights and freedoms of African Americans

• To grant African Americans the right to vote

• To encourage African Americans to move to the North

• SS.912.A.2.3:  Describe the issues that divided Republicans during the early Reconstruction era. ​Which group was most likely to support the Reconstruction policies of the Radical Republicans?

• Southern Democrats

• Former Confederates

• Northern abolitionists

• Ku Klux Klan members

• SS.912.A.2.4 Distinguish the freedoms guaranteed to Africans Americans and other groups with the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution​

• The 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870, was designed to:

• End slavery in the United States

• Grant women the right to vote

• Prohibit the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude

• Establish the Freedmen's Bureau

SS.912.A.2.2:  Assess the influence of significant people or groups on Reconstruction.​Sharecropping became a common practice in the South after the Civil War. What was a significant consequence of this system?

• It allowed former slaves to become wealthy landowners

• It trapped many African Americans and poor whites in a cycle of debt and poverty

• It led to the industrialization of the Southern economy

• It eliminated the need for agricultural labor in the South

SS.912.A.2.2:  Assess the influence of significant people or groups on Reconstruction.​

SS.912.A.2.3:  Describe the issues that divided Republicans during the early Reconstruction era. 

Which of the following was a significant failure of Reconstruction?

• The permanent abolition of slavery

• The successful integration of African Americans into Southern society

• The inability to prevent the rise of Jim Crow laws and segregation

• The establishment of public schools in the South

• SS.912.A.2.2:  Assess the influence of significant people or groups on Reconstruction.​

• Which organization was founded in 1866 to intimidate and oppress African Americans and their allies during Reconstruction?

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The American Red Cross

• The Ku Klux Klan

• The Republican Party