Reconstruction

Which one is NOT an issue that needed to be addressed after the Civil War:

• how to get the Southern states back into the Union
• how to get Southern Whites to pay their taxes
• how to fix the South's ruined economy
• how to promote the rights of the former slaves

The laws that were passed in the South to limit the rights of African Americans and keep them as landless workers were known as the:

• Black Codes
• Slave Codes
• Civil Rights Act of 1868
• 14th amendment

The organization put in place after the Civil War to provide food, clothing, health care and education in the South was known as:

• The Civil Rights Committee
• The Freedmen's Bureau
• The Welfare Committee
• The Salvation Army

Farmers who paid landowners with a share of their crop.

• Tenant Farmers
• Small Farmers
• Scalawags 
• Sharecroppers

A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states.

• Scalawags
• Republican 
• Radical Republican
• Carpetbagger

Southern whites who supported republican policy throught reconstruction

• Carpetbaggers
• Scalawags
• Ku Klux Klan
• NAACP

The Black Codes were designed to do what?

• Protect the rights of African Americans
• Keep African Americans from being equal to whites
• Created by the Radical Republicans to help African Americans
• Created by Abraham Lincoln to give African Americans the right to vote

What is one word that best describes Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction?

• Harsh
• Punitive
• Lenient
• Unfair

Who wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?

• Democrats
• Radical Republicans
• Scalawags
• Carpetbaggers

Which Amendment abolished slavery in the US?

• 12th
• 13th
• 14th
• 15th