SS Week 20 Reconstruction

What couldn't the nation change?

• the beliefs of people

• Confederate money

• the flag

• presidents

Besides enforcing participation in government by African Americans, what did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 do?

• gave newly emancipated people land

• gave veterans benefits for life

• made the state governments pay taxes

• divided the South into military districts

Which amendment abolished slavery forever in the United States?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Which amendment gave voting rights to newly emancipated men?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

In 1870, which man became the first African American in the U.S. Senate?

• Frederick Douglass of New York

• Joseph Rainey of South Carolina

• Hiram Revels of Mississippi

• John Lewis of Georgia

What were northern businesspeople who came to the South known as?

• rug salesmen

• city slickers

• carpetbaggers

• con men

What is the term when someone lives and farms a plot of land and pays the rent with a part of the harvest?

• harvest homes

• sharecropping

• farm rents

• crofting

What did the Freedmen’s Bureau establish?

• government elections

• schools and hospitals

• law and order

• courts and lawyers

The U.S. Constitution provides a way to investigate misdoings by members of government. What is this called?

• criminal investigation

• impeachment

• committee hearings

• forensic study

What event triggered the impeachment of Andrew Johnson?

• He sent troops into the South.

• He vetoed funding for the Freedmen’s Bureau.

• He fired the Secretary of War.

• He disagreed with the Speaker of the House.