Reconstruction 4th Grade

___________________ refers to the period of time after the Civil War when the Southern states were brought back into the Union.

• Westward Expansion

• American Revolution

• Reconstruction

• Freedmen's Bureau

___________________ is an arrangement in which a person grows crops on someone else's land.

• Sharecropping

• Emancipation

• 13th Amendment

• Slavery

Which of the following was true for former slaves during Reconstruction?

• They could not vote.

• They often owned no land of their own and were uneducated.

• They had to pay new taxes.

• They had to live on reservations.

Which organization started schools for African Americans after the Civil War?

• Sharecroppers

• The Confederacy

• Jim Crow

• Freedmen's Bureau

Which of the following is true about the South after the Civil War?

• Southerns rejected slavery.

• Farms, businesses, and homes were in ruins.

• African Americans could easily run for political office.

• The South asked to rejoin the United States.

What were Jim Crow Laws?

• Laws against slavery.

• Laws to help former slaves.

• Laws to keep blacks and whites apart.

• Laws for women's rights.

Which of the following was true about sharecropping? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.

• It was a good way for former slaves to get rich quick.

• Former slaves were unable to afford their own land, so they rented pieces of land from their former owners.

• Plantation owners treated their former slaves very well.

• If the workers had a bad harvest, they went into debt.

The Freedmen's Bureau was established in order to...

• Provide freed slaves with food, shelter, and medicine.

• Provide women with job opportunities.

• Help freed slaves with their sharecropping.

• Help the Southern states recover from the Civil War.

Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Which amendment banned slavery in the United States?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th