Reconstruction

The Emancipation Proclamation was an order from Lincoln

• ending slavery in the United States.

• granting slaves U.S. citizenship. 

• requiring slaves to join Union troops. 

• calling for all Confederate slaves to be freed. 

African American soldiers in the Civil War faced more difficulties than white soldiers in that they were

• only given bayonets with which to fight.

• not experienced at war and did not know what to expect.

• massacred or sold into slavery if captured by the Confederacy.

• given rotten food to eat and poor living conditions at camp.

What was the Congressional (radical republican) Plan for Reconstruction?

• Put southern states under military governments until the 14th and 15th Amendments were ratified.

• Southern states could re-enter into the Union immediately

• All males had to take a loyalty oath

• No southern states could re-enter the Union.

Black Codes in southern states led to which amendment being passed?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

What was the primary issue between President Johnson and Congress?

• they disagreed about how the south should be brought back into the Union.

• They disagreed about taxation for the South

• They disagreed about states rights

• They disagreed about the 13th Amendment.

Why did sharecroppers remain poor?

• The South flooded during Reconstrucion
• They owed money to the landowners, never getting out of debt
• The sun never shone on crops
• Animals ate all the crops

In what ways did the Freedmen's Bureau help freedmen?

• The Bureau helped the Ku Klux Klan by guiding freedmen to their "proper place."

• The Bureau helped white plantation owners find freedmen to exploit.

• The Bureau helped create sharecropping and the freedmen's cycle of debt to white landowners.

• The Bureau helped people find jobs and medical care, and supported education.

When African-American men gained the right to vote, how did this affect political parties?

• Most African American men voted for white Democrats.

• Radical Democrats became powerful before reconstruction began.

• This increased the power of the Republican Party during Reconstruction.

• This did not change politics very much, because many African American men secretly voted before the Civil War anyway.

What name was given to the laws passed by southern states that limited economic and physical freedom of former slaves?

• Civil Rights Act
• Compromise of 1877
• 14th Amendment
• Black Codes

What unfair system was created to exploit the fact that many Freedmen could not read and write?

• poll tax

• literacy test

• sharecropping

• grandfather clause