Reconstruction Era and Civil Rights Assessment

What was the main purpose of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution?

• To give Black men the right to vote

• To abolish slavery in the United States

• To grant citizenship to all persons born in the United States

• To create the Freedmen's Bureau

The 14th Amendment was significant because it:

• Ended slavery in America

• Guaranteed citizenship rights to all people born in the United States

• Gave women the right to vote

• Created public schools for freed slaves

Which amendment gave Black men the right to vote?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

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

• To collect taxes from Southern states

• To help formerly enslaved people adjust to freedom

• To build railroads in the South

• To organize the Confederate army

The Freedmen's Bureau provided all of these services EXCEPT:

• Education for freed people

• Medical care for freed people

• Military training for freed people

• Food and clothing for freed people

What was sharecropping?

• A system where farmers owned their own land

• A fair wage system for agricultural workers

• A system where farmers worked land owned by others and paid rent with crops

• A new type of farming equipment

How did sharecropping often keep freed Black people in poverty?

• It paid too high wages

• It required too much education

• It provided too much land

• It created a cycle of debt that was hard to escape

Jim Crow laws were created to:

• Help Black people gain equal rights

• Enforce racial segregation and discrimination

• Improve education for all Americans

• Support the Freedmen's Bureau

Which of these was NOT a result of Jim Crow laws?

• Separate water fountains for Black and white people

• Equal treatment in public places

• Segregated schools

• Separate sections in restaurants

The Freedmen's Bureau helped formerly enslaved people by:

• Providing them with their own farms

• Sending them back to Africa

• Setting up schools and hospitals

• Making them Confederate soldiers