Reconstruction and 1876

Lincoln's plan consisted of what 2 ideas?

• Reunion and Reconciliation

• Reunion and Punishment

• Reunion and Retribution 

Which government agency established schools to educate former slaves?

• The Executive Branch

• The Department of War

• The Bureau of the Interior

• The Freedmen's Bureau

True or false: Thanks to the Freedman's Bureau nearly all slaves received land.

• True

• False

A system of agriculture where a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land.

• sharecropping

• subsistence farming

• sustenance farming

• share farming

Which group of people immediately became citizens with the ratification of the 14th Amendment?

• newly freed slaves

• all immigrants

• women

What were black codes?

• • Rules for black people in the north

• • Rules for black people in the south

• Rules for sharecropping

The 15th amendment stated: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

Who now has the right to vote?

• Native Americans

• African Americans

• Women

Why was having African American office holders so key to transforming the south?

• It could lead to having African Americans on juries.

• They could help African Americans get access to services and help protect their rights.

• Could help protect people against discrimination

• All of the above

What are examples of ways some southerners attempted to keep the south like it was before the Civil War? (answers could be from throughout the video)

• Violence and intimidation by groups like the Ku Klux Klan

• Massacres like at Coalfax, Louisiana 

• Discriminatory voting laws

• All of the Above

What Southern laws limited African American's legal protections and created more segregation?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Laws

• Black Codes

• John Crown Laws