Reconstruction

Which action describes one role of the Freedmen’s Bureau during Reconstruction?

• promoting industrial development

• financing western migration

• investigating war crimes

• providing social services

When 10% of the voters of a state took an oath of loyalty to the Union, the state could form a new government

• Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan

• Wade-Davis Bill

• Andrew Johnson’s Plan

• Radical Reconstruction

To rejoin the Union, a state had to meet several requirements: 50% loyalty, former confederate soldiers could not vote, ban slavery

• Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan

• Wade-Davis Bill

• Andrew Johnson’s Plan

• Radical Reconstruction

Appointed Governors (people who stayed loyal to the Union) to each southern state. Used Lincoln’s oath from 10% plan. No former Confederate officers could vote.

• Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan

• Wade-Davis Bill

• Andrew Johnson’s Plan

• Radical Reconstruction

Divided the South into 5 Military Districts.

• Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan

• Wade-Davis Bill

• Andrew Johnson’s Plan

• Radical Reconstruction

What impact did the northern victory in the Civil War have on the plantation system in the South?

• Many plantations were taken over by foreign immigrants.

• Plantations were forced to find other sources of labor.

• Plantations grew larger due to a greater need for cotton.

• Many plantations were replaced by factories.

Which statement is most accurate about individuals known as scalawags?

• They were predominantly the owners of large plantations in the South.

• They were predominantly free blacks living in the South.

• They were often politicians in the pre-Civil War South.

• They were often supporters of the Republican Party in the South.

Use the information below to answer the question.

• Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War

• Sought financial gain through business ventures

• Appointed or elected to political offices as Republicans

The information above is most closely associated with which group?

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• KKK members

• Know-Nothing Party

The _____________ overturned the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford.

• Civil Rights Act
• 14th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• Emancipation Proclamation

The ______________ freed the slaves everywhere in the United States.

• 13th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Emancipation Proclamation