Reconstruction Quiz

What is a SCALAWAG?

• A white southerner who supported Reconstruction

• A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction

  government

• The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the

  seceded states and bring them back into the Union

• June 19; the date celebrated as the anniversary of

  Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas

What is a CARPETBAGGER?

• A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction

  government

• A white southerner who supported Reconstruction

• A formerly enslaved person

• A secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War

  that used violence and terror against African Americans

The time period after the Civil War was called

• destruction.

• Reconstruction.

• Antebellum.

In 1865, slavery ended. What war ended in 1865?

• Revolutionary War

• Civil War

• World War II

• Battle of Cowpens

Sherman’s March was important because

• the southern states agreed to secede.

• it started the Civil War.

• it caused the U.S. to block importing/exporting.

• it ended the Civil War.

What was the purpose of Reconstruction?

• rebuild the political system of the Union

• rebuild buildings and plantation houses

• rebuild the political system of the Confederacy

Who was president during Reconstruction?

• Washington

• Lincoln

• Davis

• Smalls

Landowners in S.C. were still farming, even without slaves. They provided the land, seeds, and equipment for freedmen that lived on their plantation. The freedmen provided the labor for the landowners and they got a portion (share) of the crops harvested. This was called ___.

• slavery.

• sharecropping.

• working.

Who are the KU KUX KLAN?

• A secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War that used violence and terror against African Americans

• A republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction

• A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government

• A white southerner who supported Reconstruction

What is the 13th Amendment?

• Ended slavery and made it illegal.

• Defined citizenship. Gave equal protection under the law at all

  levels of government.

• Granted all men (including former slaves) the right to vote.