Reconstruction

What was the Reconstruction period?

• a period of new industries and factories

• a period of rebuilding the U.S. economy

• a period of remodeling the government buildings

• a period of rebuilding the South and readmitting Southern states into the Union

What terrible event took place on April 14, 1865

• Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term.

• Lincoln was assassinated.

• Congress was attacked by the Confederate army.

• The U.S. was attacked by a foreign country.

What was Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan?

• 10 percent of voters in each southern state had to take an oath of loyalty to the Union

• all new state constitutions had to ban slavery

• amnesty to civilian Southerners

• improving northern industries while creating new industries in the South

After President Lincoln's assassination, who became the 17th president?

• Thaddeus Stevens

• Robert E. Lee

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

What was the result of the Civil War?

• The North lost.

• The South won.

• The North won.

• It was a draw between the North and the South.

What was the 13th Amendment?

• an article in the Constitution that ended slavery

• an article in the Constitution that increased voting rights

• an article in the Constitution that protected slavery

• an article in the Constitution that improved housing laws.

What is the 14th Amendment?

• an article that stated every person is entitled to "equal protection of the laws" and "due process of law."

• an article that states Confederate soldiers would receive amnesty.

• an article that states that encouraged increased educational opportunities

• an article that states that Congress provide medical supplies to Union soldiers.

What is the 15th Amendment?

• an article that gives all citizens the right to bear arms.

• an article that reduces government corruption

• an article that guaranteed state and federal governments protected voting rights for male citizens of all races.

• an article that expanded the size of the cabinet

What was the aftermath of the Civil War in the South?

• The war left many factories and industries in the North destroyed.

• The war left many Southern cities and farms in ruins.

• The war left western lands available for Southerners.

• The war left the Union and Mexico in a new war.

Who was a carpetbagger?

• A greedy northerner who took advantage of the South's situation by making money off of Southerners after the Civil War.

• A non-slaveholding farmer or business leader who had opposed secession in the first place

• A southern Radical Republican who worked with Southern Democrats

• A corrupt Northern farmer who worked on a special commission with Democrats and Republicans