5-1 Reconstruction Era Question Preview (ID: 44573)

a) a. Carpetbaggers

b) b. Entrepreneurs

c) c. Migrants

d) d. Scalawags

a) a. Congress wanted to humiliate the Southerners

b) b. Congress passed laws known as the Black Codes

c) c. Congress encouraged Southerners to be elected to office

d) d. Congress wanted to be sure that the freed slaves were free

a) a. Passed laws to protect newly freed slaves after the war

b) b. Passed Black Codes and intimidated newly freed slaves

c) c. Passed the 15 th Amendment allowing men the right to vote

d) d. Passed laws allowing newly freed slaves to serve in Congress

a) African Americans

b) Freedmen

c) Landowners

d) Poor white men

a) The plantation system was ruined

b) Factories replaced all plantations in the South

c) All plantations were taken over by the government

d) The plantation system became stronger than ever

a) It ended Reconstruction

b) It supported political rights for the freedmen

c) American Americans were abandoned by the government

d) Democrats won control of the southern state government

a) To keep women from using their newly-gained rights

b) To keep African American families from being torn apart

c) To keep the southern elite from taking over the government

d) To keep African Americans from using their newly-gained rights

a) It enforced Jim Crow Laws

b) It wanted to continue slavery

c) It helped all people in need in the South

d) It threatened newly freed slaves and poor whites

a) To protect the rights of southern elite

b) To take away rights of southern elite

c) To protect the rights of African Americans

d) To take away rights of African Americans

a) a. Bring together families and communities

b) b. Build churches, schools and access land

c) c. Allow military occupation in the south

d) d. Gain as much independence as possible

a) They continued the practice of slavery on large plantations in the South

b) They wanted to change their unfair ways and treat all freedmen equally

c) They wanted society to remain the same socially, economically, and politically

d) They did not want things to change but wanted to make life easier for freedmen

a) Ratify the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery

b) Preserve the Union and end the Civil War quickly

c) 10% of the South pledge their allegiance to the U.S.

d) Make the Southern Elite ask for presidential pardons

a) The time period of fear and deconstruction following the Civil War

b) The time period when the northern states fought the southern states

c) The time period of hope, change, and rebuilding following the Civil War

d) The time period when Americans fought Great Britain to gain independence

a) a. To be missionaries

b) b. To be entrepreneurs

c) c. To be educators

d) d. To be sharecroppers