Unit 7 - Reconstruction Preassessment

What did the 13th Amendment do?

• It made slavery illegal, except for felony crimes

• It made former slaves citizens and gave them rights

• It gave black men the right to vote

• It gave former slaves land to begin farms

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What did the 14th Amendment do?

• It made slavery illegal, except for felony crimes

• It made former slaves citizens and gave them rights

• It gave black men the right to vote

• It gave former slaves land to begin farms

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What did the 15th Amendment do?

• It made all slavery illegal

• It made made former slaves citizens and gave them rights

• It gave black men the right to vote

• It gave former slaves land to begin farms

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What was Reconstruction?

• Period of equal treatment for all people

• New rules that forced separation of races

• Rules for farmers to share part of his crop to rent land

• The period of time repairing the US after the Civil War

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What were Jim Crow Laws?

• Equal treatment for all people

• New laws that made segregation legal

• A farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land

• The period of time rebuilding after the Civil War

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The US government created what organization to help former slaves and poor whites?

• Bureau of Parks and Recreation
• Welfare Division

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Freedman's Bureau
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System of farming where farmers gave part of their crop to pay for the land they rented

• Family-Farming
• Sharecropping
• Carpetbagging

• Scallowagging

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What was the purpose of Reconstruction?

• To punish the South

• To rebuild and unite the country

• To send former slaves back to Africa

• To expand and settle the West

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After President Lincoln was assassinated, the Vice President became President. The new President was

• Andrew Johnson
• Ulysses S Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• John Wilkes Booth
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After Lincoln was killed how was the next President’s Reconstruction Plan different from Congress’ Plan?

• The President's plan tried to make it easier for the South to rejoin the Union
• Congress' plan tried to make it easier for the South to rejoin the Union
• President's plan did not want the south to rejoin the Union
• Congress' plan wanted all Southerners to be sent to Mexico
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