Reconstruction

What was the agency that built schools and hospitals for freedmen and refugees?

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Freedmen's Bureau

• 13th Amendment

• The Constitution

Andrew Johnson's aim for Reconstruction was closest to the aim of:

• Abraham Lincoln

• Freed African Americans

• The US Congress

• White Southerners

What was the purpose of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments (The Reconstruction Amendments?)

• To protect slave owners

• To protect former Confederate soldiers

• To protect the rights of African Americans

• To protect the Union

The 13th Amendment

• Gave all men the right to vote

• Freed slaves everywhere in the US

• Guaranteed free speech

• stated all people born in the US are citizens

The agreement that African Americans work the land and receive a share of the crop they grow

• indepedence

• 13th Amendment

• crop borrowing

• share cropping

Who became president after Lincoln's assassination?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• Andrew Johnson

• Robert E. Lee

What amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision and gave citizenship to all born in the US?

• 16th

• 15th

• 14th

• 13th

Who advocated giving "40 acres and a mule" to African Americans?

• Abraham Lincoln

• General Sherman

• Robert E. Lee

• Andrew Johnson

The 15th Amendment

• Freed slaves everywhere in the US

• Guaranteed free speech

• Gave all men the right to vote

• Stated all people born in the US are citizens

Reconstruction means

• to rebuild

• to renovate

• to remodel

• to restructure