Reconstruction

The purpose of Reconstruction was to:

• destroy the South
• rebuild and unite the country
• send former slaves back to Africa
• settle the West

Who was Vice President for a short time before taking over as President after Lincoln's assassination in 1865? He clashed with Congress on a plan for Reconstruction and was later impeached.

• William Seward

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Jackson

• Andrew Johnson

This abolished slavery across the entire United States.

• The Ten Percent Plan

• The Black Codes

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Thirteenth Amendment

Laws passed in the South during Reconstruction intended to deny civil rights to newly freed slaves and keep whites superior.

• The Ten Percent Plan

• The Thirteenth Amendment

• The Black Codes

• Jim Crow laws

Answer explanation

Black Codes were passed during Reconstruction to try to restrict the freedom of former slaves and keep white supremacy.

A government agency that was set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs. It also helped set up schools.

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The Southern Relief Society

• The Wade-Davis Humanitarian Agency

• The Black Codes

What problems did formerly enslaved people face during Reconstruction?

• Black Codes

• lack of education

• sharecropping

• All of the above

What did Radical Republicans want to accomplish?

• punishment for Union military officers and returning to pre-Civil War policies

• punishment for Confederate leaders and protection of the rights of freedmen

• to secede from the Union

• to reinstate the practice of slavery

 How did sharecropping affect freedmen after the Civil War?

• Many former slaves became locked into a cycle of poverty and debt

• It gave black families a way to own their own farms

• It made freedmen independent

• It allowed many former slaves to become wealthy citizens

What was segregation?

• Excused someone from a literacy test if father or grandfather was able to vote before Reconstruction.

•  Enforced separation of races.

• Assessments that were once used to qualify someone to vote.

• A fee to vote.

Hiram Rhodes Revels was the:

• first Speaker of the House.

• first African American representative.

• first African American senator.

• first African American president of the United States.