Reconstruction - Amendments & Policies

Multiple Choice

Where was most of the Civil War fought?

• in the North

• in the South

• in the Mid-Atlantic

• in the West

Multiple Choice

Who passed the Emancipation Proclamation and started putting together the 13th Amendment?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysess S. Grant

• Frederick Douglass

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Another way to think of Reconstruction, is that it was when the country was _ itself.

Draw

Draw an example of something the Freedmen's Bureau provided for newly freed African Americans.

Civil Rights Act of 1866 Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPdzGtEYkJ8&t=71s

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Knowledge Check!

The _th Amendment grants citizenship to those born in the US.

Open Ended

How did carpetbaggers make their money?

Multiple Choice

Why is the Election of 1876 considered the end of the Reconstruction Era?

• equal rights for African Americans continued & became the norm

• Northern troops left the South and restrictive laws such as Black Codes were passed

• African Americans faced discrimination in the South despite Northern troops stationed there