Reconstruction Review

What was the time period of Reconstruction?

• Time period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilding

• Time period when states' rights was challenged

• The time when Abraham Lincoln died and there was no U.S. president

• Time period before the Civil War

Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?

• James Buchanan

• Lyman Smith

• Vice President Andrew Johnson

• Jefferson Davis

What problems needed to be addressed after the Civil War?

• How to end slavery

• 4 million newly freed slaves, readmitting Southern states

• How to win the Civil War

• How to overthrow Abraham Lincoln

What was the Freedmen's Bureau?

• A government committee in the Senate

• A gov. agency who was supposed to help aid newly freed Blacks

• A group of newly freed Blacks that fought for voting rights

• A group of Confederate veterans that fought for Black rights

What group was formed by Confederate veterans to intimidate newly freed Blacks?

• The Knights of the Golden Circle

• SNCC

• The White Man's Bureau

• The Ku Klux Klan

What were Jim Crow Laws?

• Laws to end the Civil War

• Laws that limited Black freedom in the South

• Laws to prevent interracial marriages

• Laws that instituted freedom

What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson?

• Segregation is legal, separate but equal

• Slavery was legal

• The Civil War was over

• Blacks were equal to Whites

What was the impact of the 13th Amendment?

• The Civil War continued

• Outlawed slavery

• Guaranteed citizenship to African-Americans

• Granted the right to vote to all African-American men

What was the impact of the 14th Amendment?

• Made all African-Americans citizens

• Granted African-Americans the right to vote

• Outlawed Slavery

• Ended the Civil War

What was the impact of the 15th Amendment?

• Ended the Civil War

• Guaranteed African-Americans the right to vote

• Granted citizenship to African-Americans

• Outlawed slavery