Civil War & Reconstruction

What agency was created by the United States Congress in 1865 to set up schools and churches, supply food and clothing, and solve employment issues for the former slaves? 

• Freedmen's Bureau
• GA House of representatives
• GA Senate
• There was no agency to help them.

Whose Reconstruction plan was based on forgiveness and offered a quick and peaceful reunification of the North and South following the Civil War? 

• Radical Republicans (Congressional Plan)
• Johnson's Plan
• Lincoln's Plan
• Northern Plan

The era of Radical Reconstruction can be seen as a FAILURE because ...?

• Slaves were never set free legally.
• The governemtn failed to protect former slaves from having their rights violated
• Freed slaves were given plantations but didn't know how to run them.
• None of the above

Which Civil War battle was significant in that the Union army was able to halt Robert E. Lee's invasion of the north? 

• Gettysburg
• Antietam
• Chickamauga
• Atlanta

The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War

• Amnesty
• Reconstruction
• 13th Amendment
• Freedmen's Bureau

Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War that limited the freedom of formerly enslaved people.  African Americans could not own guns, meet after sunset, could be jailed if they were unemployed.

• Liberty Law
• Slave Codes
• Amendments
• Black Codes

A change in a bill or law

• Impeach
• Amendment
• A Big Change
• Modification

Passed in 1865, the amendment outlawed slavery

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

This amendment granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.

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

1870 constitutional amendment declaring that the right to vote cannot be denied because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

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