Reconstruction Review

Which document officially ended slavery in the entire United States?

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The 13th Amendment to the Constitution

• The Bill of Rights

• The Declaration of Independence

The Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in...

• The entire United States

• The Union/North

• Most of the Confederacy/South

• Border States

Black soldiers joining the Union Army and enslaved people sabotaging the Southern economy were a huge part of why the Union Army won the Civil War.

• True

• False

Who's responsibility is it to ensure the 13th Amendment is properly enforced?

• Formerly enslaved people

• The President

• Citizens

• Congress

Select all of the responsibilities of the Freedmen's Bureau:

• Set up schools

• Oversee labor contracts

• Provide medical care

• Try to suppress (keep down) violence in the South

• Settle blacks on lands that were abandoned after the landowners died in the war.

All of these were included in President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan except...

• cancellation of war debts.

• new state constitutions for Confederate states.

• ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.

• guarantee of voting rights for freedmen.

The leaders of the Confederacy were punished by the US Government after the Civil War.

• True

• False

What happened to Abraham Lincoln?

• He was shot and killed by a Southern white supremacist

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Many abolitionists, radical Republicans, and formerly enslaved African Americans criticized President Johnson's reconstruction plan. What TWO things did those groups want?

• Voting rights for black men.

• New state governments in the South (basically, kick out all the old leaders who had pushed for secession).

• All Confederate leaders to be executed

• Voting rights for women.

Select ALL of the following things Black leaders said was needed to successfully move from slavery to freedom after the Civil War:

• Land

• Education

• Autonomy

• Revenge

• Voting Rights