Week 21

Reconstructing Texas:

What is the name of the period of time following the Civil War?

• Readmission

• Reconstruction

• Reformation

• Refoundation

Reconstructing Texas:

When were enslaved people in Texas emancipated?

• June 19,1865

• October, 8, 1866

• March 30, 1870

• July 19, 1965

Reconstructing Texas:

Which government agency helped emancipated African Americans?

• Bureau of Freedom

• Freedmen’s Bureau

• Emancipation Bureau

• Bureau of Emancipation

Constitutional Changes:

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Constitutional Changes:

Who is a U.S. citizen?

• anyone born in the United States

• those who can pay citizenship taxes

• descendants of the original colonists

• military veterans who fought overseas

Constitutional Changes:

Who creates the rules for running federal elections?

• military generals

• state legislatures

• presidential aides

• the Supreme Court

Economic Challenges and Changes:

What crops were produced during Reconstruction?

• apples

• corn

• oranges

• soybeans

Economic Challenges and Changes:

Where was a majority of Texas wool shipped?

• Texas companies

• Mexican industries

• factories in the North

• European merchants

Economic Challenges and Changes:

What animal was commonly raised?

• goats

• horses

• llamas

• sheep

Sharecropping:

What did sharecroppers replace?

• farm laborers

• itinerant workers

• enslaved people

• indentured servants