Module 5 SS

The government created this to help formerly enslaved people by providing food, medicine, and education.

• Presidential Reconstruction

• the Freedman's Bureau

• sharecropping

• Black Codes

Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15 said

• confiscated lands in 40-acre plots would be given to newly freed people.

• all railway lines in the South would be destroyed and bent into "Sherman’s Neckties."

• all white landowners must give up all of their land.

• all enslaved people would now be freed.

Sharecropping is

• when a community farms a plot of land together and shares the crops between families

• when white landowners would give food from their crops to enslaved people

• when a landowner would provide tools and seeds, and freedpeople and poor whites would provide the labor

• when the government would provide land to newly freed people so they could farm

Which of the following was not part of Lincoln’s Presidential Reconstruction plan?

• Everyone but high-ranking Confederate leaders and officers would be pardoned.

• Each state had to provide plots of land to the Freedmen’s Bureau

• Ten percent of voters in each state had to swear an Oath of Allegiance to the US.

• Each state had to support emancipation

What were the Black Codes?

• secret messages used on the Underground Railroad that were revealed after the Civil War

• laws governing how white people could treat newly freed Black people

• plots of land given to freed people by the government

• laws passed by state legislatures to limit Black freedoms

What did "Radical Republicans" want?

• to limit the power of northern states over southern states

• Black Codes to be passed in every state

• full citizenship, voting rights, and representation in government for Black people

• a strong federal government

The Civil Rights Act of 1866

• allowed all enslaved people to go free

• said that Native Americans would have full rights as citizens

• said that all people born in the US were citizens and were guaranteed protection under the laws

• allowed all Black people to vote

Why did the Congress attempt to impeach President Johnson?

• Johnson dismissed the Secretary of War

• Johnson wanted to undo the Emancipation Proclamation

• Johnson reinstated the Freedmen’s Bureau.

• Johnson wanted to punish former Confederate leaders.

Which of the following was part of South Carolina’s Constitution of 1868?

• Black women could vote and serve on juries.

• Black men had to own land in order to hold office

• The state would no longer recognize Republican or Democrat political parties.

• Representation would be based on population instead of wealth.

The Compromise of 1877 said

• California would be allowed to join the Union as a free state, while Utah and New Mexico would join the Union as slave states.

• Democrats and Republicans would work together to pass the South Carolina Constitution.

• Rutherford B. Hayes would be president in the North and Samuel Tilden would be president in the South.

• Democrats would agree to declare Hayes the winner of the presidential election if US troops left the South