Reconstruction Review

The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back to the union.

• Black Codes

• Reconstruction

• Provisional Government

• Juneteenth

The 13th Amendment

• prohibited slavery

• granted citizenship to all American men

• prohibited presidents from serving more than two terms

• gave all men the right to vote

Food, clothing, and education were provided to former slaves by

• 13th Amendment

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Reconstruction Act

The 14th Amendment

• forbade slavery

• granted citizenship to all Americans regardless of race

• gave all men the right to vote

• set up the Ku Klux Klan

Under President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction, states had to do all of the following EXCEPT

• declare their secession illegal

• cancel all war debts

• set up Black Codes to restrict Freedmen's rights

• made all white males pledge loyalty to the United States

The 15th Amendment

• forbade slavery

• granted citizenship to black Americans

• gave all male citizens the right to vote

• forbade racial discrimination in public areas

A sharecroppers is farm worker who does not receive any money for his work. Instead, he is paid with a share of the crops that he helped grow. Why did many African Americans accept this kind of an arrangement?

• Crops (such as cotton and tobacco) were more valuable than money.

• They agreed in order to avoid having to work in factories

• They were treated better than paid employees.

• There were so few paying jobs, they were willing to accept any kind of work.

Segregation means

• separation based on race

• coming together

• separation based on gender

• get rid of

Which occurred during the Reconstruction Era?

• The west was overrun by buffalo.

• Three new amendments were added to the constitution.

• The south returned to the same way of life as before the war.

A white Southerner who supported Reconstruction, usually for their own gain is known as a

• slave

• civilian

• general

• scalawag