Reconstruction Era

This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...

• establish churches to provide aid in the Southern states.

• reunify the former Confederate States and to craft a plan to readmit them to the Union.

• establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.

• abolish former Confederate governments and to punish former Confederate leaders.

What name was given to men and women who had been slaves?

• carpetbaggers
• sharecroppers
• Readical Republicans
• freedmen

Who wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?

• Democrats
• Radical Republicans
• Scalawags
• Carpetbaggers

The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War. 

• Reconstruction
• Freedman's Bureau
• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws

Groups like the Ku Klux Klan that formed during Reconstruction helped freed slaves and worked to protect their rights.

• True
• False

Who took the office of President after Pres. Lincoln was killed?

• Andrew Jackson

• Andrew Johnson

• Andrew Livingston

• Andrew Young

Which of the following conspirators attacked President Lincoln?

• John Wilkes Booth
• George Atzerodt
• John Surratt
• Lewis Powell

Constitution amendments adopted during Reconstruction were intended to _______________

• limit the number of terms of the president

• correct problems with the electoral college system

• end property and religious qualifications for voting

• provide legal and political rights for African Americans

Which Amendment gave African Americans the Right to Vote?

• 13th
• 14th
• 16th
• 15th

This group helped educate African Americans, provide legal aid and feed former slaves.

• KKK
• Freedman's Bureau
• Radical Republicans
• Democrats