Reconstruction

Reconstruction

Multiple Choice

What does, "with malice towards none, with charity for all", show us about Abraham Lincoln's plan for reconstruction?

• He wanted to punish the Confederates.

• He wanted to show forgiveness to Confederates.

• He wanted to make it difficult for the south to rejoin.

Multiple Choice

Describe the agenda of the radical Republicans. ( What did they want to do to the South?)

• They wanted to provide reparations to the South
• They wanted to grant the South full independence
• They wanted to establish a monarchy in the South
• They wanted to punish the South by implementing harsh Reconstruction policies.

Multiple Choice

Reconstruction was the process of

• rebuilding the South after the Civil War
• creating land zones for freedmen after the Civil War
• instituting Black Codes for former slaves
• eliminating the plantation economy in the South

Multiple Choice

What group gained control of Congress after Lincoln's assassination?

• Southern Democrats
• Former Confederates
• Radical Republicans
• Communists 

Multiple Choice

What did the 15th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• gave former slaves land to begin farms

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What did the 14th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• gave former slaves land to begin farms

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What did the 13th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• gave former slaves land to begin farms

Multiple Choice

The US government created what organization to help former slaves and poor whites?

• Bureau of Parks and Recreation
• Free Food Bureau
• Jobs and Education Bureau
• Freedman's Bureau

Multiple Choice

Immediately following the Civil War, there was a concerted effort by southern whites to maintain

• civil disobedience
• integration
• equality
• white supremacy

Multiple Choice

A secret society of ex-Confederates who used intimidation to return political power to white men

• Freedom Riders
• Ku Klux Klan
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Radical Republicans

Multiple Choice

According to the Georgia Constitution, Southern Democrats expelled Blacks from the Georgia legislature because:

• They did not have the right to hold office.

• They did not have the right to vote.

• They sided with the Southern Democrats

• They owned too much land.

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Freedman's Bureau?

• provide food, clothing, and medical care
• provided legal advice to poor whites and former slaves
• set up hospitals and schools
• all of the above

Multiple Choice

Why did sharecroppers remain poor?

• The South flooded during Reconstrucion
• They owed money to the landowners, never getting out of debt
• The sun never shone on crops
• Animals ate all the crops

Multiple Choice

The Compromise of 1850 included a new and tougher...

• Freedom Act.

• Emancipation Act.

• Slaveowners Act.

• Fugitive Slave Act.

Multiple Choice

When Lincoln was elected president, his number one priority was:

• to preserve the Union.

• to defeat Jefferson Davis.

• to end slavery.

• to compromise with the South about the expansion of slavery.

Multiple Choice

The battle at Ft. Sumter was significant because:

• Jefferson Davis cut off supplies to the Union, shortening the war.

• it showed the war was going to be harder to win than the Union thought.

• it started the Civil War.

• it ended the Civil War.

Multiple Choice

Atlanta's military importance to the Confederacy was that it was the 

• capital of the Confederacy.
• most populated city in the Confederacy.
• industrial and transportation center of the Confederacy.
• home to the largest number of slaves in the Confederacy.

Multiple Choice

Where was the notorious Confederate prison in Georgia?

• Fulton
• Alcatraz
• Belle Isle
• Andersonville

Multiple Choice

What did the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do that brought about many changes in Georgia's society and economic structure after the Civil War?

• It freed the slaves.
• It changed who owned land.
• It gave blacks the right to vote.
• It made blacks United States citizens.

Multiple Choice

To break away from a group

• state's rights
• slavery
• Gettysburg
• secede

Multiple Choice

This group helped newly freed slaves with food, medical care, jobs, housing and schooling. 

• Sharecropping
• Jim Crow Laws
• Reconstruction
• Freedmen's Bureau 

Multiple Choice

Henry McNeal Turner was expelled from his seat in the Georgia state legislature because

• he did not win the election fairly.
• he did not have the knowledge to be a legislator.
• he did not live in the district from which he was elected.
• he did not have the right to hold political office according to the constitution.