Reconstruction

What three things did Lincoln’s Plan require the South to do to be reunited back to the Union?

• 10% of the people in each state had to take an oath to obey the Constitution.

• Each state had to set up a new government and a new state constitution.

• Each state had to abolish slavery.

• Each state had to imprison ALL ex-Confederates.

What was the agenda of the radical Republicans (what did they want to do to the south)?

• Punish the South.

• Be lenient toward the South.

• Take all former slaves from the South.

• Send all ex-Confederates to jail.

What did the 13^th Amendment do?

• Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime.

• ave citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws to all Americans including slaves.

• Granted African American men the right to vote.

• Granted women the right to vote.

What were Black Codes?

• Restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.

• Laws designed to help freed blacks and poor whites navigate the South after the end of the Civil War.

• Addendums to the Reconstruction Amendments.

• Laws designed to limit the freedom of poor whites in the South after the end of the Civil War.

What did the 14^th Amendment do?

• It gave citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws to all Americans including slaves.

• It granted African American men the right to vote.

• It abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime.

• It granted women the right to vote.

What did the 15^th Amendment do?

• It granted African American men the right to vote.

• It gave citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws to all Americans including slaves.

• It abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime.

• It allowed women the right to vote.

What was the ultimate goal of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• To give an economic boost to African Americans and poor whites by helping them learn to read and write through formal education.

• To help poor whites become educated.

• To create opportunities for poor whites.

• To educate all Southerners.

Choose 2 examples of how the Freedmen’s Bureau helped poor whites and African Americans.

• Built schools

• Supervised labor contracts

• Controlled free blacks' lives

• Built casinos

What was the ultimate goal of the KKK?

• To intimidate freed blacks and white Republicans from voting and running for office during the Reconstruction period.

• To intimidate whites to keep them from voting and running for office.

• To dance around in fancy pajamas while listening to Rhianna.

• To help freed blacks find jobs and get an education.

What is the difference between sharecroppers and tenant farmers?

• Sharecroppers owned their own supplies and tenant farmers needed everything.

• Tenant farmers owned their own supplies and sharecroppers needed everything.

• Sharecroppers owned tenant farmers.

• Tenant farmers rented land and supplies to sharecroppers.