USH Module 3 Section #3 Bellwork

What was the main goal of Reconstruction?

• To punish the South for the Civil War

• To expand slavery to new territories

• To re-establish the full participation of Southern states in the Union

• To establish the Confederacy as an independent nation

What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• To remove former Confederate leaders from power

• To provide assistance to newly emancipated slaves

• To help plantation owners find new labor sources

• To prevent African Americans from gaining political rights

What was the purpose of the Black Codes?

• To give African Americans equal rights in the Southern states under Jim Crow.

• To promote racial integration in the South per Plessy v. Ferguson

• To limit the rights of African Americans and maintain white dominance

• To abolish slavery in all states gradually using staggered integration.

What was the primary goal of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction?

• To support African American suffrage and women’s suffrage

• To enforce the Reconstruction Amendments through the Jim Crow laws

• To help rebuild the Southern economy through Radical Reconstruction

• To stop Reconstruction and maintain white control over Southern society

What did the Force Acts do?

• Allowed the federal government to use military force to stop Klan activities and protect African Americans’ rights

• Created separate but equal facilities for African Americans under the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education

• Created a set of guidelines for newly freed African Americans to follow

• Allowed states to pass their own voting laws including requiring literacy tests, poll taxes, and the grandfather clause

Match each Reconstruction Amendment to its purpose:

• 15th Amendment

• Abolished slavery

• 13th Amendment

• Granted African American men the right to vote

• 14th Amendment

• Granted citizenship and equal protection under the law

Arrange these Reconstruction events in chronological order:

• Passage of the Black Codes

• Ratification of the 14th Amendment

• Ratification of the 13th Amendment

• Ratification of the 15th Amendment

Match each challenge of Reconstruction to its correct category:

• Social Challenges

• The South was in ruins, with no more free labor.

• Economic Challenges

• The reintegration of former Confederate states into the Union and debates over African American rights.

• Political Challenges

• Millions of freed slaves had to find their place that did not see them as equals.

Categorize each Reconstruction policy as either "Expanding Rights" or "Restricting Rights":

Groups:

(a) Expanding Rights

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(b) Restricting Rights

• Freedmen’s Bureau

• 14th Amendment

• Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

• Black Codes

What was the long-term purpose of the Reconstruction Amendments?

• To help African Americans achieve equal rights

• To return the South to its pre-war economy

• To prevent former Confederates from voting

• To create new slave states in the West