Reconstruction Review

The main aim of Lincoln's Reconstruction plan was to:

• To humiliate the southern elite
• To preserve the union and end the Civil War as quickly as possible.
• Help southerners find work.

Which of the following did the Freedmen's Bureau provide to African Americans?

• Education, help to find jobs, food and clothing.

• a pardon

• land

• Nothing

What is sharecropping?

• Something that helped the northern and southern economy.
• A system in which farmers rented land in return for crops.
• A process for getting rich.
• Rebuilding the south

What was the main aim of Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?

• To humiliate the southern elite
• Ensure equality for freed slaves.
• Help southerns find work
• Preserve the Union and end the Civil War Quickly.

The goals of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) were to:

• Help newly freed slaves
• Help educate the freedmen
• Use peaceful protest to promote equality.
• Use violence and intimidation to maintain white power.

The 13th Amendment did what?

• Established schools
• Freed Slaves
• Granted Citizenship
• Allowed African American men to vote.

What is segregation?

• A form of discrimination
• Equal Rights for everyone
• A way to improve lives of AA's
• Sharecropping

_______ were laws established in the South that limited rights of AA's.

• 14th Amendment
• Segregation
• Black Codes
• Reconstruction

This Amendment gave AA Men the right to vote:

• 15th
• 13th
• 9th
• 18th

How did Reconstruction affect the Southern Elite?

• They gained more land

• No change

• They began sharecropping agreements with freedmen

• Increased cotton production