2024 Reconstruction

Which Amendment abolished slavery in the entire US?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?

• Nathan Bedford Forrest
• John Wilkes Booth
• Henry Clay
• John Breckinridge

Which of the following was not a goal of the Freedman's Bureau?

• Help to ensure the voting rights of freedmen

• Help to create African American schools.

• Help freedmen to acquire land of their own.

• To help freedmen to become sharecroppers

Which group in felt that Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was too easy on the South? Choose the best answer.

• Democrats

• Radical Republicans

• Lincoln (Regular) Republicans

• Fancy Federalists

What were Northern Republicans who went south after the Civil War to help with Reconstruction called by white Southerners? Many Southerners believed these people often were out to take advantage of more than help the South.

• Scalawags
• Ku Klux Klan
• Carpetbaggers
• Sharecroppers

Laws passed by southern states soon after the Election of 1876 was resolved? These laws legalized segregation whites and blacks to use separate facilities.

• Jim Crow laws...updated versions of the Black Codes

• The Reconstruction agenda

• Freedman's Bureau policy

• Scalawag laws

The era after the Civil War when the the America was trying to figure out how to make the Southern States part of America again.

• Reconstruction
• Reformation

• The Gilded Age

• The Era of Good Feelings

Before Congress could try to impeach and remove President Johnson it had to do which of the following?

• Pass a law they knew he would break so Congress would have a reason to impeach and remove him.

• Sue him and take their case before the Supreme Court.

• Call for an immediate, emergency Presidential election.

• Work with Johnson's Vice President so they could team up to remove Johnson.

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

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

Groups like the Ku Klux Klan that formed during Reconstruction helped freed slaves and worked to protect their rights.

• True
• False