Introduction to the Reconstruction Period

Open Ended

What are some problems freedmen faced after the Civil War?

Multiple Choice

Which is the best description of Reconstruction?

• rebuilding the US after a big earthquake
• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War
• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War
• unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

Multiple Choice

Free people who had previously been enslaved were known as __________.

• freedmen

• unslaved

• new citizens

• righteous and harmonious fists

Multiple Choice

President Lincoln worked on a plan for Reconstruction before the Civil War was over. Which of the following was part of his plan?

• Ten percent of voters in a state had to take an oath of allegiance.

• Confederate soldiers could never re-join the Union.

• Plantation owners would be sent away to other countries.

• Freedmen would become the owners of former plantations.

Multiple Choice

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• 15th
• 19th
• 14th
• 13th

Multiple Choice

Which amendment gives all people equal protection under the law?

• 14th 
• 15th
• 19th
• 13th