Reconstruction

What was Reconstruction?

• equal treatment for all people
• the forced separation of races
• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
• the period of time after the Civil War

The US government created what organization to help former slaves and poor whites?

• Bureau of Parks and Recreation
• Free Food Bureau
• Jobs and Education Bureau
• Freedman's Bureau

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

System of farming where farmers gave part of their crop to pay for the land they rented

• Family-Farming
• Sharecropping
• Groupcropping
• Split-Farming

Why did sharecroppers remain poor?

• The South flooded during Reconstrucion
• They owed money to the landowners, never getting out of debt
• The sun never shone on crops
• Animals ate all the crops

How was President Lincoln killed?

• heart failure
• bit by a snake
• falling off a horse
• shot by John Wilkes Booth

Southern whites passed laws restricting the rights of African Americans called--

• Black codes
• Slave Laws
• Confederate Rights
• Merica Laws

What percentage of voters had to accept Lincoln’s plan before a new government could be organize?

• 5%

• 10%

• 50%

• 100%

What limited the opportunities and rights of blacks in the south?

• The Black Codes

• The Reconstruction Amendments

• The 10% Plan

• Congressional Plan

Abraham Lincoln believed:

• African Americans should remain enslaved

• Southern states should have less rights than the North

• preservation of Union was more important than punishing the South

• the US should become two separate nations

What is the rebuilding in the South after the Civil War called?

• Rehashing
• Refurbishing
• Reconstruction
• Rebuilding