Reconstruction

The period after the Civil War when the southern states were brought back into the United States and newly-freed slaves found their place in society is known as the

• Destruction

• Reconstruction

• Reworked

• Rewind

Two problems freed slaves faced after the Civil War were that they were uneducated and unemployed.

• True

• False

Which government agency helped freed slaves after the Civil War?

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Freedmen's Bureau

• US Army

• Confederacy

After the Civil War, many former slave owners agreed to give former slaves supplies and a place to live. For rent, the former slave had to give the owner part of his crop plus extra money. This was known as 

• Crop Rotation

• Farming Friends

• Sharecropping

• Slavery Shift

The ​ (a)   Era refers to the period after the Civil War, especially in the ​ (b)   . ​

• Reconstruction
• South
• Civil War
• North

The 14th Amendment granted...

• freedom of speech
• citizenship and equal protection
• the right to vote
• the right to a speedy and fair trial

Which of these amendments gives citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 18th Amendment

Carpetbaggers were...

• Newly freed slaves
• Southern Republicans
• Confederate Soldiers
• Northerners who took advantage of southern economic hardships 

Scalawags were...

• Northerners who took advantage of southern economic hardships 
• Southern Republicans
• former Confederate Leaders
• African Americans

Match the following

• Banned states from denying African Americans right to vote

• Fourteenth Amendment

• abolished Slavery in the US

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Agency established by Congress to help former slaves in the South

• Reconstruction

• Period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War

• Thirteen Amendment

• African American Citizenship

• Freedmen´s Bureau