Reconstruction

After the Civil War, the South was in

• good shape

• ruins

• the same place it was before

• the need for troops.

Reconstruction" is

• the process of rebuilding

• the process of destroying

• the process of abstraction

• process of calibration

President Andrew Johnson stood by while the Southern states passed _______ which restricted the liberty of newly freed African Americans.

• Restricted Liberty Laws

• Tyrannical Codes

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

Radical Republicans from the North stopped the South's Black Codes by ratifying the ____ Amendment.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

How many freed African Americans were elected to Congress?

• 16

• 60

• 6

• 61

According to the narrator, to be truly free meant people would need to...

• Slavery in the west continues to spread into Canada.

• There were no more troops in the South to enforce new Reconstruction laws.

• Southern states refused to allow immigration from the Northern states.

• Troops from the South took over the North as a compromise to join the Union.

It took until the ____ for these laws to be struck down

• 1880's

• 1900

• 1930

• 1960

What was the purpose of the freedman's bureau? click all that apply

• Protect newly freed slaves

• help freedmen get access to land

• ensure that freedmen were treated fairly

• all the above

The Freedman's bureau did not get a lot of money from Congress but it did have land. TRUE OR FALSE

• True

• False

The Freedman's bureau acquired (got) land b/c some southern white planters just donated their land.. TRUE OR FALSE

• True

• False

• White planters either lost their land by force during the Civil War or lost it due to not paying taxes