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8th Grade Georgia Milestone Review Quiz #8- Unit 9 Reconstruction

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The BEST description of the Freedman's Bureau during Reconstruction was that it
provided education, training, and social services for the newly freed slaves.
After the Civil War, what system was developed to provide labor to work the former plantations?
sharecropping
Which BEST describes the differences between sharecropping and tenant farming?
Sharecroppers owned nothing but their labor, while tenant farmers owned farm animals and equipment to use in working other people's land.
To whom did President Johnson's Reconstruction plan deny a general pardon?
Southerners who owned more than $20,000 worth of property.
What did the fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do?
It gave citizenship rights to all Americans
What did the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution do that brought about many changes in Georgia's society and economic structure after the Civil War?
It freed the slaves.
Henry McNeal Turner was expelled from his seat in the Georgia state legislature on the grounds that he did not
have the right to hold political office.
The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan was to
return control to the Democrats.
Which U.S. President was impeached durinig Reconstruction?
Andrew Johnson
Which man listed was NOT an African American elected to the General Assembly during Reconstruction?
Rufus Bullock
According to Lincoln's Reconstruction plan, which group of Southerners would be pardoned after taking an oath of allegiance?
former soldiers and prisoners of war
According to Lincoln's plan, what percentage of the state had to take the oath of allegiance so that they could form a legal state government?
10%
What did Lincoln think of the Wade-Davis (Congress) plan for Reconstruction?
He did not support it because he thought it punished the South.
Who did Johnson add to the list of those that would be denied a general pardon?
Large plantation owners
Which of these schools was NOT started by the Freedmen's Bureau?
University of Georgia
Which action of the General Assembly led Congress to argue that Georgia was not "adequately reconstructed" in 1866?
Passage of the Black Codes to restrict the civil rights of freedmen in Georgia
Why were military districts created in the South during Reconstruction?
To govern the former Confederate states
Which statement about the Black Codes is FALSE?
The Black Codes established minimum working hours, a minimum work week, and minimum wage for the freedmen.
The term "solid south" refers to the fact that what group had a "solid grip" on the South for over a hundred years?
Democrats
What was NOT provided to sharecroppers by the land owner?
Workers
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