End of Reconstruction

Who was elected President of the US in 1877 at the end of Reconstruction?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Andrew Johnson

Rutherford Hayes agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South and officially end Reconstruction, with the...

• Compromise of 1877

• Tenure of Office Act

• Reconstruction Act of 1867

What were Jim Crow laws?

• To reconstruct after Civil war

• To defeat enemies during Civil War

• To mistreat and segregate freedmen from the rest of society

• To leave poor whites in a cycle of debt

Why do you think a transcontinental railroad was constructed in the south during Reconstruction?

• To have more industries

• To abolish slavery

• To carry immigrants to the North

• To physically connect the country 

Chinese and Irish immigrants helped build the railroad by taking on dangerous jobs like blasting tunnels through mountains and building bridges over rivers

• False

• True

The 14th amendment granted ...

The 15th amendment gave African American men the right to...

The 13th amendment abolished

At the end of Reconstruction, who helped build the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Chinese and American

• German and Mexican

• Mexican and Irish

• Chinese and Irish

Draw something that represented sharecropping during Civil War...