Reconstruction Unit 4

Why was Reconstruction needed in the United States?

• The Civil War destroyed a lot of land in the South
• The Revolutionary War destroyed parts of the country
• Slaves had to be divided among northern states
• The Industrial Revolution meant new building materials

Which was a system used in the South after the Civil War in which farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner back with a certain amount of money they made from selling their crops?

• sharecropping
• feudalism
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• segregation

The Freedmen’s Bureau was started by the U.S. government during the Reconstruction of the South. It was created to help former slaves. What was one thing the Bureau did?

• hiding escaped slaves from their owners
• building schools for former slaves
• punishing former slave owners
• getting the 14th Amendment passed

What did the South look like right after the Civil War ended?

• It was beautiful with all sorts of factories
• It was destroyed because Sherman and the Union army destroyed a lot of things
• It looked better than the North
• It looked like it did before the Civil War started

After Reconstruction, blacks were not allowed to sit in the same areas at the theater as whites. They had to sit in the back part of the theater, while whites sat at the front of the theater. This is an example of

• desegregation
• integration
• segregation
• reconstruction

Which is a result of Jim Crow laws?

• All people were treated equally
• People were not separated by the color of their skin in schools
• African Americans gained rights
• African Americans lost rights

group of laws that kept segregation a live in the South were called?

• Reconstruction laws
• Jim Crow Laws
• Confederate laws
• Virginia Laws

Which event occurred after the Civil War?

• African Americans and whites were not allowed to use drinking fountains anymore
• African Americans were forced to use separate drinking fountains than white people
• African Americans slaves were the only people allowed to use drinking fountains
• Whites were not allowed to use drinking fountains, but African Americans were.

Unfair poll taxes and tests were started to keep African Americans from

• Moving
• Voting
• growing crops
• owning land

What is a racist person?

• someone that is nice to everyone no matter the color of their skin
• someone that is mean to someone because of the color of their skin
• someone who was born in the South
• someone who does not believe in segregation