History Study Guide (Reconstruction and Lincoln)

What year was Abraham Lincoln born?

• 1810

• 1820

• 1809

• 1811

What is it called when racial groups are separated?

• discrimination

• segregation

• laws

What group was created in 1865 in the south, for the purpose of preventing both the programs of Reconstruction and laws promoting racial equality?

• Freedman's Bureau

• Ku Klux Klan

• Know Nothing Party

• White Circle Council

Frederick Douglass believed...

• that the south would rise again

• in jobs for all

• that there should be public education

• in civil liberties and voting rights for all

The Ku Klux Klan formed during Reconstruction with the purpose of

• fighting Union armies stationed in the South.

• keeping freed slaves from exercising their rights.

• taking control of Southern state governments.

• helping poor whites improve their economic status.

What was the Freedman's Bureau?

• gave education, food, medicine, and clothes to former slaves

• gave citizenship to all men

• gave food to Northern soldiers

The 13th Amendment ...

• banned slavery

• grants voting rights

• grants citizenship and equal protection

• restores Confederate rights

What did Jim Crow laws do?

• made discrimination and segregation legal

• let all people become citizens

• helped African Americans get education and medicine

What was Reconstruction

• getting rid of Jim Crow laws

• rebuilding England

• time after the Civil War

The period of rebuilding of The South after The Civil War was known as

• The Renaissance

• Reconstruction

• The Guilded Age

• The Industrial Revolution