Milestones Practice Unit 5B: Reconstruction

Match the following Civil Rights Amendment's with the correct description.

• 14th Amendment

• Amendment guaranteed rights and liberties to all citizens, including former slaves.

• 13th Amendment

• Amendment prohibits the federal government and states from denying a citizen's right to vote based on race, color, previous servitude.

• 15th Amendment

• Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime.

What did Congress’ plan for reconstruction require former Confederate states to do in order to be readmitted to the union?

• Repeal their Jim Crow laws

• Ratify the 14th Amendment

• Appoint an African American to the U.S. Congress

• Pay off their war debts

Match each of the Reconstruction Amendments to the correct description.

• Gave citizenship rights to formerly ensl

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Granted African-American men the right t

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Outlawed the practice of slavery across

• Fourteenth Amendment

What was the main goal of Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan for Reconstruction?

• to punish the southern states for seceding from the Union

• to make it easy for southern states to rejoin the Union

• to ensure that former Confederate leaders were jailed

• to divide the southern states into military districts

How did the Radical Republicans in Congress shape Reconstruction policies?

• They pushed for a lenient approach for the South, similar to Lincoln’s plan.

• They favored strict policies that ensured the protection of African American rights.

• They worked closely with former Confederate leaders to create policies.

• They encouraged southern states to make their own laws without federal involvement.

The _______ was formed by white southerners to resist Reconstruction efforts.

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Union League

• Carpetbaggers

Who would have most likely NOT supported the Freedmen's Bureau?

• A western farmer.

• A newly freed slave.

• A former slave owner.

• A northern abolitionist.

Which is the BEST description of the purpose and motivation of groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the White League during the Reconstruction era?

• A. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the White League worked to help the newly freed slaves adjust to life after slavery.

• B. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the White League worked to provide financial assistance for retired Confederate veterans and their families.

• C. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the White League worked to restore white supremacy in the South through threats and violence against free blacks and white Republicans.

• D. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the White League worked to ensure that white southerners cooperated with the Reconstruction policies put into effect by the federal government.

What was the MAIN reason 28 elected legislators were removed from the Georgia General Assembly in 1868?

• They were involved in a corruption scandal.

• They were not citizens of Georgia.

• They were African American.

• They refused to take an oath of office.

Who benefited the most from sharecropping in the Reconstructive south?

• A) Landowners

• B) Sharecroppers

• C) Migrant workers who controlled agriculture.

• D) Carpetbagger politicians who controlled agriculture.