Reconstruction Era Study Guide

The Union is also called the _____________.

• North

• South

• East

• West

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Confederate states are the states in the _____________.

• North

• South

• East

• West

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The reconstruction period lasted about ___________ and ended in _______________

• 12 years

• 1877

• 1867

• 4 years

This agency provided food, education, and other help to former slaves.

• Freedmen's Bureau

• The government agency of free food

• Education of America

• Freedmen's Treasury

Most freed slaves, called ______________ had no education, money, and owned no land or farming tools

• freedmen

• sharecroppers

• carpetbaggers

• Ku Klux Klan

These were laws that were passed in the South after the Civil War that placed restrictions on the rights of freed slaves

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Black Codes of 1808

This ended the Black Codes and helped African Americans achieve legal equality. It declares that everyone born in the U.S. is a citizen, regardless of race or color

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Civil Rights Act of 1896

• Civil Rights Act of 1906

• Civil Rights Act of 1976

The normal rights of a citizen include the right to vote, to take a case to court, to buy property, or hold a meeting

• civil rights

• servitude

• sharecropper

• carpetbaggger

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 authorized the government to send ​ (a)   back into the South to make sure the law was being followed.

• Federal troops (northern soldiers)
• Federal Troops (southern soldiers)
• Local troops (northern soldiers)
• the sheriff of those localities

In 1867, how many military districts did Congress vote to divide the Southern states into?

• 5

• 3

• 3

• 7