RECONSTRUCTION

The rebuilding of the United States after the Civil War was called?

• Military Rule

• Reconstruction

• Antebellum period

• Sectionalism

Which amendment forever abolished slavery in America?

• 1st

• 19th

• 13th

• 14th

Which amendment gave African Americans citizenship?

• 14th

• 15th

• 19th

• 25th

Which amendment reversed the Dred Scott decision?

• 2nd

• 4th

• 14th

• 15th

Which amendment gave adult African Americans males the right to vote?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

These laws were intended to regulate the lives of freedmen and to keep them in a state of semi-slavery.

• Black Codes

• White Codes

• Freedmen's Codes

• Civil Rights Codes

This man became president after Lincoln's assassination. He wanted to be lenient on the South and not punish them for the Civil War.

• Andrew Jackson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Johnson

He became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress.

• Martin Luther King

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Wentworth Cheswell

• Crispus Attucks

Former plantation owners provided the land and livestock to former slaves in exchange for a share of the crops and profits. Former slaves were almost always cheated under this system.

• row crops

• carpetbagging

• sharecropping

• freedmen's bureau

Northerners who went to the South after the war to help it rebuild and to take advantage of political and economic opportunities.

• scalawags

• abolitionists

• carpetbaggers

• Ku Klux Klan