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- 1. Multiple Choice
What was the main goal of the Reconstruction Era?
Rebuilding the US after the Civil War
Rebuilding cities after an earthquake.
Hurting the feelings of people who disagreed
Constructing new ways of working
- 2. Multiple Choice
What was the purpose of the Black Codes after the Civil War?
To provide services for newly freed African Americans
To help African Americans exercise their rights
To limit the rights of African Americans
To help white farmers exercise their rights
- 3. Multiple Choice
What amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
The 15th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 13th Amendment
The 12th Amendment
- 4. Multiple Choice
Constitution amendments adopted during Reconstruction were intended to _______________
limit the number of terms of the president
correct problems with the electoral college system
end property and religious qualifications for voting
provide legal and political rights for African Americans
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following amendments recognized African Americans citizenship and offered equal protection under the law?
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The Bill of Rights
- 6. Multiple Choice
How did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments protect the rights of African Americans?
Northern states had to follow these three amendments otherwise they could be arrested.
Southern states had to follow these three amendments or otherwise they could be arrested.
The Constitution now gave white Americans new rights.
The Constitution now stated that African Americans had to be offered the same opportunities as whites.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which workers in the South rented farms and paid rent with cash or crops?
Tenant farmers
Plantation owners
Slaves
Sharecroppers
- 8. Multiple Choice
Why did poor white people and freed African Americans get involved with sharecropping?
They enjoyed farming.
They wanted to become wealthy.
They had little money to buy or rent land.
They could have returned to plantations that needed workers.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which group of people were known as Freedmen?
African American slaves who ran away from their owners.
Northern whites who came to form governments in the southern states.
Southern whites who tried to frighten African Americans
Slaves who were freed at the end of the Civil War.
- 10. Multiple Choice
What laws replaced Black Codes and encouraged segregation in the South?
Marshall Laws
Reconstruction laws
"Jim Crow" laws
Segregation Laws
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