Reconstruction

What does "Reconstruct" mean?

• To make something

• To make history

• To re-build

• To see in the future

What was the Freedman's Bureau?

• A law that forced slaves to be returned to their masters

• An organization that provided poor Americans food, jobs, and medical care

• A farming group that helped Northerns build roads

• A group of free slaves that made a bureaucracy

What was the 13th amendment?

• Gave all men the right to vote

• Gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S.

• Gave freedom of speech

• Gave freedom to all slaves and banned slavery

Check 2 things that the Freedmen's Bureau provided

• Food

• Medical Care

• Transportation

• Free Money

What were Jim Crow Laws?

• Laws that created segregation in the South

• A law that required people to return runaway slaves

• Laws that required people to put up scarecrows in their farms

• A law that Senator Jim created to outlaw slavery

What was the 14th Amendment?

• It gave slaves freedom and banned slavery

• It forced people to return runaway slaves

• It gave all men the right to vote

• It gave slaves and Native Americans citizenship

What is Sharecropping?

• A farming technique where former slaves and farm owners shared crops

• A farming technique used to make better crops

• A technique that was created by slaves

• A farm that was named Sharecropping

What is the 15th amendment?

• It gave all men the right to vote

• It gave slaves liberty and freedom

• It gave slaves citizenship

• It gave people the right to bear arms

When did Reconstruction happen?

• Before the Civil War

• During the Civil War

• After the Civil War

• After the American Revolution

How did the South look after the Civil War?

• Beautiful and preserved

• Destroyed and ruined

• Nice and pretty

• Gorgeous and nicely built