Reconstruction

Reconstruction

Rebuilding America After the Civil War

​What is Reconstruction?

• 1865 - 1877: ​Rebuilding of America after the destruction of the war - was a difficult time

• Southern states were brought back into the United States

• ​Newly-freed slaves tried to find their place in Southern society

Multiple Choice

The southern states were not allowed to rejoin the United States after fighting against the United States in the Civil War.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The period after the Civil War when the southern states were brought back into the United States and newly-freed slaves found their place in society is known as the

• Destruction

• Reconstruction

• Reworked

• Rewind

​Constitutional Amendments

• ​Changes were needed to help freed slaves

• ​13th Amendment: banned slavery in America

• ​14th Amendment: gave citizenship to all persons born in US with all freedoms of a US citizen

• ​15 Amendment: right to vote protected (regardless of race, color or former slave)

Multiple Choice

The 13th Amendment of the US Constitution ended all 

• slavery

• freedom

• states

• wars

Multiple Select

Which of these were ways the Reconstruction amendments helped former slaves?

• ending slavery

• giving citizenship to all born in the US

• protecting their right to vote

• giving them all land to live on

​Helping Freed Slaves

• ​Problems of Freed Slaves: Uneducated & Unemployed

• ​Solution: Freedmen's Bureau (a government program to help freed slaves)

  • ​Provided food, clothing, medicine and other supplies

  • ​Built thousands of schools

  • ​Helped find jobs

  • ​Helped with legal problems

Multiple Choice

Two problems freed slaves faced after the Civil War were that they were uneducated and unemployed.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which government agency helped freed slaves after the Civil War?

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Freedmen's Bureau

• US Army

• Confederacy

​Freed Slaves Try to Earn a Living

• ​Experienced in agricultural work

• ​Couldn't afford their own land and supplies

• ​Sharecropping

  • ​Landowner (previous slave owner) gives freed slave supplies and place to live

  • ​As rent, the freed slave gives the owner a SHARE of his CROP at harvest time

  • ​Freed slaves would stay in debt to the owner (could never get ahead)

Multiple Choice

At what type of job were many freed slaves experienced?

• Factories

• Agricultural (Farms)

Multiple Choice

After the Civil War, many former slave owners agreed to give former slaves supplies and a place to live. For rent, the former slave had to give the owner part of his crop plus extra money. This was known as 

• Crop Rotation

• Farming Friends

• Sharecropping

• Slavery Shift

​Jim Crow Laws

• ​Laws passed in the south that discriminated (treat differently because of differences) against black Americans

• ​Legal to have separate schools, hotels, restaurants, theaters, restrooms, trains, buses

• ​Voting: poll taxes (freed slaves had little money), literacy tests (had to be able to read and write)

• ​Racial Segregation: forcing separation because of race

Multiple Choice

What term is used to describe when people are separated because of differences like race or religion?

• segregation

• convergent

• divergent

• destructive

Multiple Choice

Southern laws that discriminated against former slaves and segregated blacks and whites after the Civil War were known as

• Lincoln Laws

• Confederate Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Jefferson Davis Laws