Reconstruction Review

“Stimuli” Based Questions I can’t think of a name for this category #Goals/ Amendments “Stimuli” Based Questions I can’t think of a name for this category Miscellaneous $100 $200 $300 $400 $500

What are the 3 Reconstruction Amendments (# and what they did) $100

13-Freedom 14-Citizenship 15-Voting $100

Name 3 of the 6 goals of Reconstruction $200

Fix government Reunite North and South End Slavery Fix economy Restructure Plantations Repair damages $200

After Lincoln was assassinated, who became President After Lincoln was assassinated, who became President? What did Congress try to do to him? $300

Andrew Johnson Congress impeached him for breaking the Tenure of Office Act, but lost by one vote $300

What were TWO ways African Americans were limited in the right given by the 15th Amendment? $400

Grandfather clause Poll Tax Literacy Test KKK $400

The main intent of the literacy test described in the passage was to "[The registrar] brought a big old book out there, and he gave me the sixteenth section of the constitution of Mississippi, . . . I could copy it like it was in the book, but after I got through copying it, he told me to give a reasonable interpretation and tell the meaning of the section I had copied. Well, I flunked out." Source: A History of the United States since 1861 The main intent of the literacy test described in the passage was to   1. encourage reform of the political system    2. encourage Mississippi residents to learn about their state’s legal system    3. prevent African Americans from exercising a basic right    4. enforce the provisions of the United States Constitution  $500

3. Prevent African Americans from exercising a basic right (15th Amendment) $500

How were waiting rooms like this made legal? $100

Plessy vs. Ferguson $100

Based on the map below, name 5 states that the Emancipation Proclamation applied to $200

Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia $200

2. It brought investment capital to the South. What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War? 1. It kept formerly enslaved persons economically dependent. 2. It brought investment capital to the South. 3. It encouraged Northerners to migrate south. 4. It provided for a fairer distribution of farm profits $300

1. It kept formerly enslaved persons economically dependent. $300

This Louisiana Law is an example of _______________. No negro shall be permitted to rent or keep a house within said parish. Any negro violating this provision shall be immediately ejected and compelled to find an employer; and any person who shall rent, or give the use of any house to any negro, in violation of this section, shall pay a fine of five dollars for each offence. $400

Black Codes $400

2. the guarantees in the Bill of Rights were applied to state actions The 14th amendment provides that no "state [shall] deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." A direct result of this amendment was that 1. the process of amending the Constitution became slower and more complex 2. the guarantees in the Bill of Rights were applied to state actions 3. every citizen gained an absolute right to freedom of speech and assembly 4. the power of the Federal Government was sharply reduced $500

2. The guarantees of the Bill of Rights are applied to state actions $500

Define segregation and give an example $100

Separation by race different schools water fountains entrances $100

What was the outcome of the Plessy vs. Ferguson case? $200

Plessy was found guilty of breaking the law and separate but equal laws continued to be allowed. $200

The Black Codes fined African Americans for being unemployed and forced them to work for free to pay their fine. What amendment did this violate? $300

13th (freedom from slavery) $300

Other than racism, what problems might have occurred with the Freedmen’s Bureau? $400

Too many people to feed/educate/get jobs for not enough funding $400

Explain sharecropping $500

A poor farmer is given a plot of land owned by a rich white man A poor farmer is given a plot of land owned by a rich white man. They farm the land and give the landowner a share of their crops. They often stay poor. $500

Which plan for Reconstruction wanted to punish the South and pass the 14th amendment? $100

Congress $100

What did the Freedmen’s Bureau do? $200

Provide schools/education, medicine and food for poor whites and freedmen $200

What is “white supremacy?” $300

When whites think they are better than other races (KKK) $300

Why did the Freedmen’s Bureau and Reconstruction end in the 1870s? $400

The South got its power and control back with the Compromise of 1877 and ended the program and Reconstruction $400

Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction wanted to ______________ the South and ______________ freedmen $500

Forgive, not help $500