Module 19 Reconstruction

      How did the Freedmen’s Bureau assist freed people and poor southerners after the Civil War?

• by offering 40-acre plots of land

• by building schools and colleges

• by organizing mutual-aid societies

• by setting up the sharecropping system

14th Amendment

• gave African American men the right to vote

• granted citizenship to all people born in the country (except for Native Americans)

• made slavery illegal throughout the country

Which group wanted President Johnson’s administration to take a much more active role in Reconstruction?

• Democrats

• Redeemers

• Radical Republicans

• Ex-Confederate officials

13 Amendment

made slavery illegal throughout the country

provided equal protection of the laws

• gave African American men the right to vote

• granted citizenship to all people born in the country (except for Native Americans)

• made slavery illegal throughout the country

• provided equal protection of the laws

The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided the South into five districts that were led by

• a federal judge.

• a military commander.

• a temporary governor.

• a member of Congress.

15 Amendment

• granted citizenship to all people born in the country (except for Native Americans)

• gave African American men the right to vote

• provided equal protection of the laws

• made slavery illegal throughout the country

Which of the following helped weaken northern support for Reconstruction? Choose the two correct answers.

• Panic of 1873

  Whiskey Ring scandal

• Ku Klux Klan violence

  Civil Rights Act of 1875

• General Amnesty Act of 1872

  Civil Rights Act of 1875

14th Amendment

• made slavery illegal throughout the country

• provided equal protection of the laws

• gave African American men the right to vote

      Which of the following industries was important to rebuilding the economy of the “New South”?

• Fishing

• Steel

• Oil

• Textile

      Write one letter in each blank to complete the sentence correctly.

As part of the effort to reverse the accomplishments of Reconstruction, southern governments used __________ and __________ to prevent African Americans from voting.

• property taxes

  work contracts

• poll taxes

  literacy tests

• union dues

  apprenticeship laws