Alabama Studies Weekly

Reconstruction is a word describing the period before the Civil War when the South built up an army to fight the North.

• True

• False

After the Civil War, some freed slaves went back to the plantations and worked as sharecroppers, which allowed them to earn wages for their labors.

• True

• False

After the war, Northern businessmen, known as carpetbaggers, came to the South, hoping to make money from the Southerners by using dishonest ways.

• True

• False

After the Civil War, the Southern-state governments went back to the way they were.

• True

• False

The United States Constitution was amended to allow full citizenship and rights to all American men regardless of their background or color.

• True

• False

___________was someone who went South after the war to make a profit from those who were trying to rebuild.

• scalawag

• Carpetbagger

• reconstruction

According to the___________ , the fine for laziness was $50.

• Black Codes

• martial law

• president

The Black Codes were written in

• 1870

• 1860

• 1866

After the Civil War, __________ did not have the right to vote.

• men

• women

• children

Some Southern states, including Alabama, established Black Codes that kept restrictions on the former slaves.

• True

• False