Reconstruction

Reconstruction

How do you rebuild a country after a civil war?

Multiple Choice

What do you call a war in which citizens from the same country fight each other?

• international conflict

• major conflict

• civil war

• compromise

Multiple Choice

In what years did the American Civil War take place?

• 1775-1883

• 1812-1815

• 1861-1865

• 1939-1945

Multiple Choice

True or False? Most of the fighting in the American Civil War took place in the southern states?

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

True or False: The Civil War was the conflict that contributed to the end of slavery in the United States.

• true

• false

Destruction of the South

• Destruction of major cities

• High death/injury toll

• Destroyed roads, railways, factories, farms, and more.

• Loss of "human property"

• economic upheaval

Civil War Death Toll

• More Americans died in Civil War than any other American conflict (Some scholars today quote the true total number of deaths as 750,000 -- 20% higher than this chart)

• A little over 1 of every 10 enlisted Union soldier was killed

• 3 of every 10 enlisted Confederate soldier was killed

• Many deaths were due to more advanced weaponry than in earlier wars, poor sanitation in army hospitals, and diseases

Freedmen

• Over 4 million enslaved people in the South were now free

• 13th Amendment made it official

• But can you truly be free if you have no money, no property, no education, no job skills, and live in a society that looks down on you?

13th Amendment

 "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States . . .”

Freedmen's Bureau

Food, clothing, medical care, and schooling for needy white people and African Americans in the South

Multiple Choice

What problems did the southern states face at the end of the Civil War?

• Their roads and railroads were often destroyed

• They lost their human property (slaves)

• Many of their cities, towns, factories, and farms were destroyed

• Confederate soldiers suffered high death and casualty tolls

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Americans in both the North and the South knew people who had died or were injured in the war.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

True or False: The Civil War had the highest death toll per capita of any US war before or since?

• true

• false

Open Ended

Why did the Civil War have such a high death toll?

Multiple Choice

True or False: The United States survived as a country because the Union won the Civil War.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

True or False: The Civil War helped end slavery in the United States.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

What do you call someone who is liberated from slavery?

• libertine

• freedman

• Emancipation Proclamation

• slave

Multiple Choice

Which Amendment officially ended slave labor in the United States?

• 12th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Multiple Choice

True or False: According to the 13th Amendment, you can still be forced to do unpaid work if you are charged with a crime.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

The government created an agency to help disperse food, clothing, medical treatment, and other services to needy southerners. What was this agency called?

• The Freedman's Bureau

• Emancipation Proclamation

• 13th Amendment

• Freedmen

Multiple Choice

True or False: The Freedmen's Bureau was just for needy African Americans in the South.

• true

• false

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by actor John Wilkes Booth

President Andrew Johnson

Former slave holder from Tennessee

When his state seceded, he remained loyal to the Union

Pardoned former Confederates

Insisted on each state accepting the 13th Amendment

Allowed states to decide for themselves how they would treat African Americans

Black Codes

• Laws meant to control newly freed black people

• Examples:

• Freedmen are only allowed to do farm work

• Freedmen cannot travel without permission

• Freedmen cannot be with white people in public places

• Any freedman found without a job can be arrested and put in jail

Congress Takes Charge

• Pass a 14th Amendment - Equal treatment for US citizens (ends black codes)

• Pass a 15th Amendment - The right for men to vote, no matter their race

• Break South into 5 military zones, get rid of their state governments, and send in their own people and troops

• Insist on African Americans being able to hold office, be judges, and take part in police work

The Ku Klux Klan and Domestic Terrorism

Multiple Choice

Who killed Abraham Lincoln?

• John Wilkes Booth

• Andrew Johnson

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Ulysses S. Grant

Multiple Choice

Who became the new president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Rutherford B. Hayes

Multiple Choice

True or False: Andrew Johnson supported the Union, but he did not fully support the civil rights of African Americans.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

True or False: Andrew Johnson felt that southern states needed to end slavery, but otherwise he felt they could make their own decisions about how to treat African Americans.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

True or False: The U.S. Congress did not approve of President Andrew Johnson's full Reconstruction plan.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Which of the following did the Congress NOT do:

• insist on African Americans being able to be office holders, judges, and police officers

• create black codes

• Separate the South into 5 military zones and send in troops

• Get rid of the old southern state governments

Multiple Choice

Which Amendment said that if you were born in the US, you were automatically a citizen and guaranteed equal treatment by the government?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Multiple Choice

Which Amendment said that all American men could vote no matter their race.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

Multiple Choice

What group formed to fight against the US government's Reconstruction work?

• Ku Klux Klan

• Radical Republicans