Junior Scholastic's '40 Acres and a Mule'

The 12-year period following the Civil War when the U.S. government worked to rebuild and reunite the country is known as ____.

• Reconstruction

• Restructuring

• Reuniting

• Retirement

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. In order to get the freedmen on their feet, the U.S. Congress created the Bureau of-

• Refugees

• Freedmen

• Abandoned Lands

• Reclaimed Property

• Free Crops

Agents for the Freedmen's Bureau not only faced hostilities from Southern whites, but one agent could be responsible for up to how many former slaves?

• 40,000

• 100,000

• 4,000

• 10,000

What would the rations that the Freedmen's Bureau provided contain? SELECT ALL THE APPLY.

• Flour

• Sugar

• Corn

• Milk

• Eggs

Former slaves were given free land after the Civil War that used to belong to Confederate soldiers, but lost that land after President Andrew Johnson pardoned the soldiers and gave back their land.

• True

• False

The Freedmen's Bureau helped open over 4,300 schools including these THREE historically black universities. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

• Howard

• Fisk

• Hampton

• Norfolk State

• Brown

Freed children would go to school and learn to read and write, then they would go home and teach their parents.

• True

• False

Which president ended Reconstruction in 1877 by pulling troops out of the South?

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Grover Cleveland

Despite the 14th Amendment, that guaranteed all citizens be equal under the law, Southern states began passing laws that promoted ____________ or separated whites and blacks in public places.

• segregation

• aggregation

• subjugation

• secession

Laws that promoted segregation and discrimination against African Americans are called "_____ _____" laws, named after a minstrel character created to make fun of blacks.

• Jim Crow

• Jiminy Cricket

• Crow Jim

• Jimmy Dean