Beanbody Histories - Reconstruction Review

More than 620,000 soldiers died in the Civil War.

• True
• False

After the war, the Confederate states were...

• welcomed back into the Union with open arms.
• treated as foreign countries
• charged one million dollars to enter the union
• none of the above

The 10-12 year period after the Civil War is known as:

• Reconstruction
• Civil War: A New Hope
• Reconstitution
• Recompromise

President Lincoln thought the Confederate states should be severely punished.

• True
• False

A group in congress that didn't like Lincoln's "10% Plan" was called

• Radical Republicans
• Rebel Forces
• Carpetbaggers
• Scalawags

White farmers shared their lands with African American workers.  This was called...

• Sharecropping
• Scarecrowing
• Carpetbagging
• Servitude

The Reconstruction Act of 1877 created 5 military districts in the South.

• True
• False

Most carpetbaggers

• Came from the North to the South
• Were Southerners who supported the North
• came from the East to the West
• none of the above

Sharecroppers had to give 3/4 of their crops to the landowners.

• True
• False

The government agency known as _______________ helped former slaves by setting up schools, handing out food, and providing medical care.

• Freedman's Bureau
• Radical Republic
• Sharecropping Centers
• Scalawag Central