Reconstruction Era

This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...

• establish churches to provide aid in the Southern states.

• reunify the former Confederate States and to craft a plan to readmit them to the Union.

• establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.

• abolish former Confederate governments and to punish former Confederate leaders.

What name was given to men and women who had been slaves?

• carpetbaggers
• sharecroppers
• Readical Republicans
• freedmen

How did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments protect the rights of African Americans?

• Northern states had to follow these three amendments otherwise they could be arrested.

• Southern states had to follow these three amendments or otherwise they could be arrested.

• The Constitution now gave white Americans new rights.

• The Constitution now stated that African Americans had to be offered the same opportunities as whites.

What is Sharecropping?

• To produce a crop.
• A friend who shares with you.
• A crop that is shared.
• A farmer who gives part of each crop as rent.

Which of the following statements describes sharecropping?

• Sharecroppers had to give farm owners part of their crop for using the land.
• Sharecroppers had to work the land they farmed.
• Sharecroppers had little money so they had to buy small plots of land.
• Sharecroppers had to share their crops with other sharecroppers.

Who did the Radical Republicans attempt to impeach?

• Lincoln
• Johnson
• Grant
• Hayes

Groups like the Ku Klux Klan that formed during Reconstruction helped freed slaves and worked to protect their rights.

• True
• False

Who were carpetbaggers following the Civil War?

• Northern businessmen who came to the south seeking profit

• Southerners who supported the Republican party

• Southern Democrats looking to regain political power

• Labor workers in Georgia textile mills

Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?

• limit African Americans rights
• expand Confederate rights
• give women voting rights
• jail Carpetbaggers

Sharecroppers

• A system of farm work that led to a life of debt and poverty.
• Place that provided educational, medical, care, food and clothing to ex-slaves.
• change to the constitution