Lesson 11: Andrew Johnson Begins Presidential Reconstruction

What did freedom mean for many formerly enslaved people?

• The right to travel as they wished

• The right to legally wed without fear of separation

• All of the above

• The opportunity to pursue education

What was the great ambition of older freed people?

• To acquire farmland

• To learn to read the Bible

• To marry and start a family

• To secure a job

Who advocated for giving newly freed people 'forty acres and a mule'?

• Benjamin Flanders

• Thaddeus Stevens

• Sidney Andrews

• Booker T. Washington

What was the purpose of the Black Codes?

• To restrict the freedom of African Americans

• To stabilize the workforce for planters

• To prevent the upward mobility of African Americans

• All of the above

What rights were denied to African Americans under the Black Codes?

• The right to serve on juries

• The right to vote

• The right to work for wages

• The right to own property

What did the Black Codes prohibit African Americans from doing?

• Starting their own businesses

• All of the above

• Working in professions other than farm work and unskilled labor

• Owning property

What did a Northern journalist observe about the white population in the South?

• They admitted that the government had made African Americans free

• They believed that freedom for African Americans meant the same thing as freedom for themselves

• All of the above

• They believed they still had the right to control African Americans

What did the Freedmen's Bureau provide to formerly enslaved people?

• All of the above

• Medical care

• Education

• Food and clothing

Who pardoned former Confederates and returned available land to them?

• Booker T. Washington

• Thaddeus Stevens

• Benjamin Flanders

• Andrew Johnson

What did the Freedmen's Bureau act as in some situations?

• A court of law

• A school

• A medical center

• A government agency