Reconstruction

Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction included...

• 50% of each state's voters must sign a loyalty oath

• forced military rule on the South

• forgiveness for most Confederates

• payment of the North's war debt

Which Reconstruction plan imposed military rule on the Southern states?

• Hunger Games Bill

• Lincoln's 10% Plan

• Johnson's Plan

• Radical Reconstruction

Which region was left most damaged physically and economically after the Civil War?

• North

• South

• East

• West

What did the Thirteenth Amendment state?

• abolish slavery throughout the US

• allow Jim Crow laws in the South

• allow freedmen the rights of all citizens

• abolish slavery in the border states only

What did the Freedmen's Bureau do to help newly freed slaves?

• showed them maps of the Underground Railroad

• taught them to become farmers

• helped them find homes and jobs

• all of the above

Which is an example of a Jim Crow law?

• Freedmen must be allowed to vote

• Black and white people must ride in separate train cars

• Freedmen can't gather in groups

• Freedmen can NOT vote

What did the 14th Amendment state?

• slavery is banned in the border states

• freedmen must be allowed to vote

• people born in the US are citizens

• slavery is banned in the entire US

Which is NOT true of freedmen after the Civil War?

• most didn't have much education

• many became sharecroppers

• they were higly skilled and well paid

• they were often discriminated against

What group of people CAN be forced to do labor according to the 13th Amendment?

• freedmen who owe money to whites

• convicted criminals

• former Confederates and their descendents

• children

What does the Fifteenth Amendment state?

• voting is a guaranteed right to all male citizens

• all people born in the US are citizens

• slavery is banned in the US

• all of the above