Reconstruction Era Review

What years did the Reconstruction Era take place?

• 1850-1860

• 1855-1860

• 1865-1877

• 1875-1885

What did the Freedmen's Bureau do?

• expand education opportunities for newly freed enslaved people

• expand job opportunities for women

• limit opportunities for newly freed enslaved people

• limit the amount of hours a woman could be away from the home

The 14th Amendment did what?

• Abolished slavery

• Gave African American Males the right to vote

• Gave Native Americans their land back

• Made former slaves citizens and gave equal protection for all citizens under the law

This amendment abolished slavery.

• 12th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

This group set up all along the south to help former slaves adjust and to become educated.

• Trade Unions

• Carpetbaggers

• Freedmen

• Scalawags

This amendment guaranteed all citizens "equal protection of the laws" and "due process"

• 10th Amendment

• 12 Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

This president was impeached in February 1868.

• Andrew Johnson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Ulysses S. Grant

John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln April 15, 1865.

• True

• False

The purpose of the Reconstruction Era was to...

• Reconstruct how the federal government was ran

• Rebuilding war-torn states & southern state governments

• Reconstructing the Confederate states to form their own country

• Rebuilding the structure of the slave trade

The political impact of the Reconstruction Era was?

• 3 New amendments to the Constitution were ratified

• Native people received all of their land back

• Jefferson Davis took over after Lincoln was assasinated