Which group of people was most affected by the passing of the 14th Amendment?
Politicians
Plantation Owners both men and women
African American men
Northern Soldiers (men)
Which headline would have most likely occurred imnnmediately after the Reconstruction period ended?
"Federal Troops Leave the South"
"Civil Rights Act Helps Former Slaves"
"The Black Codes Limit Freedoms of Former Slaves"
"The Freedmen's Bureau is Established"
Presidential Reconstruction was said by Radical Republicans to be "too lenient". Why?
Confederate officers were imprisoned and lands seized by the government.
Only a tenth of the state was required to plege loyalty to the union.
Plantation land owners were stripped of their land and voting rights.
This group helped newly freed slaves with food, medical care, jobs, housing and schooling during Reconstruction.
Jim Crow
Radical Republicans
Freeman's Bureau
NAACP
African Americans elected to the Georgia General Assembly during Reconstruction were expelled. What reason was given for this action?
Georgia constitution gave all men the right to vote but denied blacks the right to hold political office
Jim Crow laws required all legislators to be literate.
Their grandfathers never voted so they were ineligible to hold office.
A new required only women to hold office in the Georgia General Assembly.
The 14th Amendment was in response to the Black Codes used in throughout the South. The 14th Amendment guaranteed all people what rights? Choose the one best answer!
the right to vote
the right of all U.S. citizens
equal protection under the law
the right to public education
Georgia refused to abolish Black Codes and ignored the 14th Amendment. As a result, Congress placed Georgia under______________.
house arrest, no one allowed to leave home until the Black Codes were elliminated.
Military Reconstruction, with soliders monitoring Georgia's 5 miltiary districts.
shelter in place, no unneccesary travel until the Black Codes were elliminated.
Once Georgia re-admitted the illegally removed African American legislators and ratified the 15th Amendment she was allowed to re-enter the Union (for the second time). With the 15th Amendment ratified, all people of Georgia were guaranteed what rights? Choose the 1 best answer!!
Rights of U.S. citizen
Right to vote
Right to hold office
Right to protest
To ratify means to
kill all rats
make ratatouille
pass
repeal
- terrorist organization created to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South
KKK
Freedman's Bureau
NAACP
ISIS
During reconstruction many freedman and poor whites were forced into an economic cycle much like slavery inorder to support themselves and their families. What was this economic means of support?
credit- buy now pay later
technical school- train for a better job
sharecropping/tenant farming- work for a share of profit or harvest
indentured servent- work for a set amount of years for free in exchange for a specific favor
This was the job that many freedman turned to because once they were free, they owned Nothing except the clothes on their back.
sharecropping
tenant farming
fast food work
teaching
Who was President at the beginning of Reconstruction right after the end of the Civil War?