Lesson #11: Reconstruction

Open Ended

Explain the challenges faced by Vice President Andrew Johnson in bringing the country back together after Lincoln's assassination.

Multiple Select

Which of the following were consequences of the Civil War mentioned in the text?

• The South was left in ruins

• More than half a million people died

• The North was destroyed

• Rebuilding cities was easy

Open Ended

This image of Charleston, South Carolina in April 1865 shows the aftermath of the Civil War. What does the destruction in the image suggest about the difficulties of Reconstruction?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following Amendments to the Constitution abolished slavery?

• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 13th Amendment

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT a way that freedom changed the lives of former slaves during Presidential Reconstruction?

• They could travel freely to find family members.

• They could legally get married without fear of separation.

• They could immediately vote in national elections.

• They could attend weddings and form families.

Open Ended

Describe how education became important to freed people after emancipation. What challenges did they face in pursuing education?

Multiple Select

Which of the following were services provided by the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• Food and medical care

• Legal advice and court services

• Setting up schools

• Providing farmland

Multiple Select

Which rights were denied to African Americans under the Black Codes?

• Owning property

• Getting married

• Voting

• Serving on juries

Multiple Select

In what ways did Black Codes limit the freedom of African Americans and help maintain a system that resembled slavery? (Select all that apply)

• They deprived African Americans of basic civil rights, such as the right to vote.

• They banned education for African Americans.

• They required freed people to sign yearly labor contracts.

• They restricted African Americans to jobs on farms or as unskilled laborers.

• They required African Americans to work for their former enslavers.

Multiple Choice

What was the main reason many people in the North disagreed with President Andrew Johnson's approach to Reconstruction?

• They wanted to punish the South more harshly

• They believed the Black Codes were unfair and restricted freedom

• They supported the return of slavery

• They wanted Johnson to remain president

Multiple Select

Which of the following actions did Radical Republicans and moderates take in 1866 to help formerly enslaved people?

• Passed the Freedmen's Bureau extension

• Passed the Civil Rights Act

• Passed the Fifteenth Amendment

• Passed the Black Codes

Open Ended

What was the significance of the Fourteenth Amendment during Reconstruction, and how did it affect the rights of people born in the United States?

Multiple Select

Which of the following were requirements for Southern states to rejoin the Union under the Reconstruction Acts?

• Elect state legislatures

• Approve the Fourteenth Amendment

• Give African Americans the right to vote

• Allow Confederate supporters to vote

Multiple Choice

How was Congress able to take control of Reconstruction?

• Congress passed a series of laws that granted it control over Reconstruction.

• The Supreme Court found that Congress was better suited to handle Reconstruction than President Johnson.

• Republicans won a two-thirds majority in both houses, enabling them to override President Johnson's vetoes.

• President Johnson assigned Congress the responsibility of taking care of Reconstruction.

Match

match the following

• Gave African Americans the legal rights as white citizens

• Ended slavery in the United States

• Prohibited discrimination based on race in public places

Fourteenth Amendment

Thirteenth Amendment

Civil Rights Act

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Civil Rights Act

Multiple Select

Select all of the TRUE statements

• For the most part Southern states welcomed Reconstruction.

• The 15th Amendment prevents denying an individual the right to vote based on race.

• After Reconstruction, the South became reliant on trade & manufacturing.

• Reconstruction governments established the South's first public school systems.

• Sharecropping resulted in the sharecroppers living a life of poverty.

Dropdown

During Reconstruction, many White Southerners rejected the idea of Black people voting and holding office. This led radical White supremacists to form terror groups, such as the ​

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. Northerners lost interest in Reconstruction, and after the ​

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, Reconstruction ended. New legislation was passed in the South, such as the ​

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, making racial segregation the norm. In 1896, the ​

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case established the concept of "separate but equal."

Match

Match the Key Terms

• Segregation was found legal under the doctrine of "separate but equal"

• outlawed slavery

• made formerly enslaved people citizens

• gave African American men the right to vote

Plessy v. Ferguson

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Match

match the following Key Terms

• any of the laws legalizing racial segregation of Black people and White people that were enacted in Southern states beginning in the 1880s and enforced through the 1950s

• established in 1866, a secret, White supremacist terrorist group that resisted Reconstruction by harassing, threatening, and using violence against Black people

• the 1896 Supreme Court case that established the controversial "separate but equal" doctrine by which segregation became legal as long as the facilities provided to Black people were equivalent to those provided to White people

• a constitutional change ratified in 1870 granting Black men the right to vote

Jim Crow Law

Ku Klux Klan

Plessy v. Ferguson

Fifteenth Amendment

• Jim Crow Law

• Ku Klux Klan

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Fifteenth Amendment

Match

match the following Key Terms

• laws enacted in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to restrict freedom and opportunities for African Americans

• a federal agency established in 1865, at the end of the Civil War, to help and protect the 4 million newly freed African Americans as they transitioned out of enslavement

• during and after the Civil War, a member of the Republican Party who believed in and fought for the emancipation of enslaved people and, later, the equal rights of African Americans

• a constitutional change ratified in 1865 abolishing slavery in the United States

• a constitutional change ratified in 1868 granting citizenship to all formerly enslaved people by declaring that anyone born in the United States is a citizen; extended the rights of due process of law and equal protection under the law to Black people

Black Codes

Freedmen's Bureau

Radical Republican

Thirteenth Amendment

Fourteenth Amendment

• Black Codes

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Radical Republican

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment