Chapter 17 - Reconstruction

True or False:

Tired Southern soldiers returned home to find that although the economy was badly damaged, cities and farms were in good condition.

• True

• False

True or False:

Reconstruction was the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union.

• True

• False

True or False:

Established in 1865, the Freedman's Bureau was an agency that provided relief for poor white people only.

• True

• False

True or False:

The 13th Amendment declared the Emancipation Proclamation unconstitutional.

• True

• False

True or False:

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14th, 1865.

• True

• False

The 10% Plan was Andrew Jackson's plan for readmitting southern states to the union.

• True

• False

These were laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans.

• Impeachment

• Black Codes

• Reconstruction Acts

• Veto

A group that wanted the Federal government to force change in the South.

• Democrats

• Thaddeus Stevens

• Republicans

• Congress

Laws that divided the South into five military districts.

• Black Codes

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Impeachment

• Reconstruction Acts

This was the leader of the "Radical" Republicans.

• Andrew Johnson

• Thaddeus Stevens

• Ulysses S. Grant

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