Reconstruction Era

What was the time period following the Civil War of rebuilding the South and bringing the country back together?

• Rebuilding Era

• Post War Era

• reconstruction era

• Lincoln's Era

Men and women who had been enslaved but were now free.

• confederates

• freedmen

• sons of liberty

• minutemen

The time during Reconstruction in which the President was the main person in charge of Reconstruction.

• Presidential Reconstruction

• Reconstruction

• Civil War

• Rebuild

Who was president during the Reconstruction Era? (select 2)

• Thomas Jefferson

• Andrew Johnson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

Which amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

What laws were passed in the Southern states to restrict the freedom of African Americans after the Civil War?

• Freedom Laws

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Black Codes

• Civil Rights Act

What was the Freedman's Bureau?

• an important agency of the early Reconstruction Era that assisted former slaves in the South.

• place for free men to write letters

With the support of the "Radical Republicans and other northern politicians" what did the Freedman's Bureau hope to accomplish, but sadly was stopped by President Johnson because "he did not think improving the lives of blacks was important"?

• write more letters to politicians

• stage protests to fight for equal rights

• take over the government

• build more schools, homes, and hospitals for blacks in the South

• 
• 
• 
• 

• 
• 
• 
•