Brainpop Week 3 Sub - Reconstruction

During the Reconstruction period, what term was used to describe Northerners who moved to the South to make money?

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Freedmen

• Abolitionists

What was the main goal of the Freedmen's Bureau established in 1865?

• To support Southern plantation owners

• To provide food, clothing, and education to former enslaved African Americans

• To enforce Black Codes

• To promote Northern migration to the South

What were the laws called that were put into effect to keep African Americans from voting in the South?

• Civil Rights Laws

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Black Codes

• Reconstruction Acts

What was the result of the Compromise of 1877?

• The end of the Civil War

• The removal of federal troops from the South

• The beginning of the Civil Rights Movement

• The election of Abraham Lincoln

Who was elected U.S. president in 1876?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Andrew Johnson

• James A. Garfield

What event occurred first in the order of historical events listed?

• Reconstruction

• Compromise of 1877

• The Civil War

• Jim Crow Laws

Which amendment banned slavery in the United States?

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act

What was the purpose of the Black Codes?

• To grant citizenship to all persons born in the U.S.

• To limit the freedom of former slaves

• To ensure voting rights regardless of race

• To provide help to former slaves

Who had a Reconstruction plan that focused on reconciliation?

• Frederick Douglass

• Robert E. Lee

• Abraham Lincoln

• Southern Military Leaders

Which group could not hold office after the Civil War?

• Northern Soldiers

• African Americans

• Southern Military Leaders

• Carpetbaggers