Standard 10 ( a and b)-Two Kinds of Reconstruction & Slavery

The agency with the GREATEST impact on helping former slaves adjust to their new lives after the Civil War was:

• The State Department

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Bureau of Family and Human Services

• The Freedman’s Bureau

Use the map of the South during Reconstruction to answer the question.

What did the policy of dividing the South into these military districts achieve?

• It helped the South’s manufacturing industry recover from the Civil War, but the region’s agricultural industry collapsed.

• It helped the South’s manufacturing industry recover from the Civil War, and the region became the industrial center of the country.

• It helped protect and provide opportunities for African Americans, but these successes were reversed when the policy ended.

• It helped protect and provide opportunities for African Americans, and these successes led to permanent societal changes.

What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments do?

• Ended slavery, granted equal protection under the law, and gave voting rights to African American males

• continued slavery, granted some protection for African Americans, and gave voting rights to all African Americans

• Both a and b

• None of the above.

What was President Abraham Lincoln's plan to bring the Confederate states back into the Union generally known as?

• the Wade-Davis Plan

• the Ten Percent Plan

• the Fifty Percent Plan

• the Ironclad Oath Plan

As compared to the Reconstruction plans of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, the Congressional Reconstruction plan was more focused on which of the following?

• protecting the political rights of African Americans.

• protecting Southern business interests

• punishing "border states" for not supporting the Union

• punishing Southern states for seceding

Which of the following higher-education facilities was established in the Reconstruction-era South to provide educational opportunities for African Americans?

• Fisk College

• Florida College

• Bennett College

• Morehouse College

What were THREE goals of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• to settle labor disputes and give legal advice to former slaves

• to provide food and medical care to those in need in the South

• to punish the former Confederate states for their role in the Civil War

• to establish schools to educate former slaves and help them find work

• to recruit individuals throughout the South to serve in the armed forces

Under the Radical Republicans' Reconstruction policy, the federal government deployed troops to the South to stem the growth of

• the Order of the Southern Cross.

• the Border Ruffians.

• the Ku Klux Klan.

• the League of the South.

The effort to reorganize the Southern states and bring them back into the Union after the Civil War was _____.

• Reconstruction

• Rehabilitation

• Reorganization

• Restoration

Northerners who went south after the Civil War to make large profits from the destruction in the south were called

• Scalawags
• Ku Klux Klan
• Carpetbaggers
• Sharecroppers