Reconstruction

Which term best describes the period immediately following the Civil War?

• Reparation

• Rebuilding

• Reconstruction

• Restoration

Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?

• Lee Harvey Oswald

• Charles Guiteau

• Edward Stanton

• John Wilkes Booth

Who was Lincoln's Vice President, and assumed office, after Lincoln was assassinated?

• Jim Crow

• Lyndon Johnson

• Andrew Johnson

• James Garfield

Radical Republicans wanted to be much more _____________ with the Confederacy for seceding?

• Strict

• Lenient

• Fair

• Angry

What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• A Confederate agency who sought to intimidate African-Americans

• An United States agency who sought to protect the legal rights of African-Americans

• 1. An agency of African-Americans who fought in the Civil War

• 1. A group of white enslavers who united in order to fight the Civil War again

1. The Black Codes were created in many Southern states shortly following the Civil War.  What were they?

• 1. A set of laws passed that guaranteed equal job opportunities for black and white Americans 

• A set of laws that allowed African-Americans to serve in a state’s legislature

• 1. A set of laws passed to keep African-Americans from having rights equal to white people

• 1. A set of laws that kept black Americans in separate schools from white Americans

Which of the following describes a carpetbagger?

• 1. A white southerner who supported Reconstruction in the South

• 1. A northerner who moved to the South to take advantage of the poor economic and political situation

• 1. A former confederate soldier who would terrorize and intimidate former enslaved people

• 1. A former enslaved person who remained on the plantation and worked in exchange for food and shelter

Which of the following describes a scalawag?

• 1. A white southerner who supported Reconstruction in the South

• 1. A northerner who moved to the South to take advantage of the poor economic and political situation

• 1. A former confederate soldier who would terrorize and intimidate former enslaved people

• 1. A former enslaved person who remained on the plantation and worked in exchange for food and shelter

Which of the following describes a sharecropper?

• 1. A white southerner who supported Reconstruction in the South

• 1. A northerner who moved to the South to take advantage of the poor economic and political situation

• 1. A former confederate soldier who would terrorize and intimidate former enslaved people

• 1. A former enslaved person who remained on the plantation and worked in exchange for food and shelter

What are "freedmen"?

• African Americans who were enslaved after the Civil War

• African Americans who moved to New York during the Civil War

• African Americans who were freed from slavery after the Civil War

• African Americans who worked as factory workers in the late 1700s