Reconstruction Era Notes

Multiple Choice

Definition of amnesty.

• The reestablishment of friendly relationships.

• A change or addition to the US Constitution.

• The act of forgiving people who broke the law.

• A belief that a person or group is better than others because of a trait (such as skin color, culture, or religion.)

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John Wilkes _ _ _ _ _ assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

Multiple Choice

True or False? President Andrew Johnson was weaker on black civil rights than President Abraham Lincoln.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Definition of Reconstruction.

• Reconstruction refers to the process of forgetting past events.
• The period from 1865 throught 1877 when the nation reunited and rebuilt after the Civil War ended.

• Reconstruction is a method of creating new technologies.
• Reconstruction is the act of demolishing existing structures.

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To promote agricultural practices among landowners.
• To enforce laws against slavery in the North.
• To provide military support to the Confederacy.
• To assist formerly enslaved people and poor whites in their transition to freedom and provide support in various aspects of life.

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This refers to a farmer who pays for using a piece of land with a portion of a crop grown on that land, instead of cash. This was bad because it often kept farmers, mostly Black families, in a cycle of debt and poverty. (ends in -ing)

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True or False? The Civil Rights Act of 1866 established the right to vote.

Multiple Choice

A belief that a person or group is better than others because of a trait (such as skin color, culture, or religion.)

• Reconstruction

• Supremacy

• Slavery

• Sharecropping

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True or False? The Compromise of 1877 resulted in more equitable rights for Black Americans.

Open Ended

Explain the Ku Klux Klan's goals and their strategies to implement their plan.