Reconstruction Era Day 6

This graphic organizer is about the Transcontinental Railroad.

Which of the following best explains the effects of the Transcontinental Railroad?

Select THREE correct answers.

​ (a)   often left freedmen and poor whites in a cycle of debt. The ​ (b)   helped Black southerners adjust to freedom. The ​ (c)   allowed African American men to vote in elections at all levels of government. ​ (d)   were laws that put restrictions on freedmen in the South.

• Sharecropping
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Fifteenth Amendment
• Black Codes

The ​ (a)   was acquired after the U.S.-Mexican War and led to debates over the expansion of slavery into new territories. ​ (b)   are man-made rivers, which caused the price of goods to decrease and encouraged growth of cities along their paths.

• Mexican Cession
• Canals
• Gadsden Purchase

Match the following

• Telegraph

• Claimed Florida, Texas, California; built missions

• 10th Amendment

• Last major battle; British defeated and signed Treaty of Paris recognizing U.S. independence

• Spain

• Invention by Samuel Morse used to communicate rapidly over long distances

• Yorktown

• Rights not given to the federal government are given to the states

Which of the following is a specific example of how the Freedmen’s Bureau supported former slaves?

• Jobs were given to freedmen in the lumber industry.

• Money was given to freedmen to buy food and shelter.

• Offering legal assistance and public schooling to former slaves

• Trains and wagons carried freedmen to the North to find jobs.

How did sharecropping affect farmers in the South during Reconstruction?

• By introducing new technology for growing food

• By expanding the region’s dependence on corn production

• By making landowners buy supplies from the government

• By keeping renters in debt to landlords

Match the following

• 10th Amendment

• African American males were granted the right to vote.

• 13th Amendment

• Granted citizenship to African Americans, all Americans were to be treated equally under the law.

• 14th Amendment

• Abolished slavery, African American were free to move wherever they wanted.

• 15th Amendment

• Rights not given the federal government are rights of the states.

Which statement would probably be made by a businessman in the North when talking about the transcontinental railroad?   

• “It’s about time the railroad was built all the way out to the West coast.  Now Americans economy can grow.”

• “This law would make Horace Mann proud.  He believed in this cause and now it looks like the government does too.”

• “I’m going to get as much land as I can and sell it ten years from now for a higher profit.”

• “Giving money to Universities is a waste. Our tax dollars should be going to build up our military.”

Southern states passed the codes described in this excerpt in order to -

• limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments

• increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North

• decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress

• improve relations with the Democratic Party

How did President Lincoln succeed in permanently abolishing the practice represented by the tree in this cartoon?

• by ordering the use of popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery

• by encouraging an armed rebellion of slave in the South

• by promoting the passage and ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment

• by helping abolitionists fund the Underground Railroad