Monday, September 14, 2009

Reconstruction Unit Test

Here is the True/False and Short Answer section to the Reconstruction Unit Test. Please use this section to help you with your homework tonight! Correct the ones you got wrong to receive extra points on your test.

True/False
16. The 15th amendment gave all African Americas, men and women, the right to vote.

17. The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves.

18. Andrew Johnson became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

19. President Lincoln wanted to humiliate the Southern elite.

20. The Southerner’s aim for Reconstruction was to end the war, but keep slaves.

Short Answer


21. What was the overall goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?

22. How were the lives of African Americans made more difficult after the end of Reconstruction? Use the word segregation in your answer.

23. What effect did black codes have on African Americans?

24. Why were many African Americans still unable to vote even after the 15th amendment was passed?

25. Explain the system of sharecropping. Why were many African Americans forced into this system after being freed?

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