MB History (Powerpoint Information

The Freedmen's Bureau was set up to help anyone in the South who suffered from the war by providing:

• aid to the needy

• schools

• hospitals

• focused on the freedmen

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

Freedmen became citizens because of which amendment?

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

This amendment gave ALL adult male citizens the right to vote.

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

After the Civil War, public schools were more common for both white and black children.

• True

• False

Before the Civil War, most slaves were taught to read and write.

• True

• False

After the Civil War, ____________________________________.

• Colleges for black students were opened.

• Many religious colleges were opened or reopened.

___________________ was a free black American educator of the Civil War era; the first African American to become president of an American college.

• Thomas Nast

• John Wilkes Booth

• Carl Schurtz

• Daniel Payne

____________________ is a Northerner who went south to get government jobs after the Civil War.

• Carpetbagger

• Scalawag

____________________ is a white Southerner who worked with Northerners during Reconstruction.

• Carpetbagger

• Scalawag