USH Reconstruction DBQ

The difficult, 12 year period after the Civil War which saw an increase of freedom for former slaves. 

• Reconstruction 
• Enlightenment 
• Great Depression 
• Industrial Revolution 

African Americans who were freed from slavery during and after the Civil War. 

• Carpetbaggers 
• Scalawags 
• Freedmen 
• Radical Republicans 

Northerners who went south after the Civil War to help Freedmen and Reconstruction.

• Ku Klux Klan 
• Radical Republicans 
• Carpetbaggers 
• Scalawags 

Southern whites who supported Reconstruction.

• Scalawags 
• Carpetbaggers 
• Ku Klux Klan 
• Radical Republicans 

Northern Congressmen who supported African--American citizenship and punishment for former Confederates. 

• Scalawags 
• Ku Klux Klan 
• Radical Republicans 
• Carpetbaggers 

A white supremacist group that opposed Reconstruction and equal rights for freed slaves. 

• Ku Klux Klan 
• Radical Republicans 
• Carpetbaggers 
• Scalawags 

"Federal troops sent south to enforce reconstruction." Who would NOT be happy about this? 

• Carpetbaggers 
• Freedmen 
• Ku Klux Klan 
• Radical Republicans 

"Hiram Revels elected senator from Mississippi in 1870- first black man to enter congress." Which group would have been MOST happy about this? 

• Freedmen 
• Ku Klux Klan 
• Carpetbaggers 
• Radical Republicans 

It ended slavery. 

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

Gave blacks citizenship and civil rights. 

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