Reconstruction

Rebuilding the South after the Civil War is called what?

• 15th Amendment

• Carpetbaggers

• Frederick Douglass

• Reconstruction

What formally abolished slavery in America?

• Reconstruction

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• Radical Republicans

What amendment says all persons born in the US are citizens

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• Freedman's Bureau

• Sharecropping

This officially guaranteed African American men the right to vote.

• Radical Republicans

• Freedman's Bureau

• 15th Amendment

• Grandfather Clause

Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after Civil War

• Radical Republicans

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• 15th Amendment

Providing emergency food, housing, education, and medical aid to former slaves

• Sharecropping

• scalawags

• Freedman's Bureau

• Radical Republicans

A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

• Sharecropping

• Grandfather Clause

• Scalawags

• Impeachment of Johnson

allowed people to vote if their father or grandfather had voted before Reconstruction

• Grandfather clause

• Compromise of 1877

• Joseph Rainey

• Thaddeus Stevens

Southern whites who supported Reconstruction

• Scalawags

• carpetbaggers

• Thaddeus Stevens

• Radical Republicans

A term used to describe a northerner who moved to the South during Reconstruction

• carpetbaggers

• Thaddeus Stevens

• Hiram Revels

• Compromise of 1877