WorksheetsRebuilding Mississippi
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What was the U. S. Government's plan to rebuild the South after the Civil War?
Rebuilding
Restructuring
Reconstruction
Reverse
After the war, freed African Americans were called
slaves
freedmen
they weren't called anything
I don't know
In what ways did the Freedmen's Bureau help African Americans? (pick two)
Tried to protect them
Built new schools for them to attend
Built houses for them to live in
Why did Southerners dislike carpetbaggers?
Because they wanted to make money off of the Reconstruction
Southerners didn't like that they carried bags made of carpet
Southerners didn't want anyone from the North coming to help
Carpetbaggers were messy
Southerners who took part in Reconstruction were called:
Scurvies
Imbeciles
Fools
Scalawags
The Black Codes were:
laws passed to help grow freedmen's rights
laws passed to limit freedmen's rights
laws passed to outlaw carpetbaggers
laws passed to further Reconstruction
How were corrupt leaders of Mississippi replaced?
Through an election
They were all driven out of the state
War was declared again
They left and made their own state
Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
12th
13th
14th
15th
What is sharecropping?
When many people work a farm together, and then share the crops they harvest
When landowners rent small pieces of land to people to farm
When farmers share their crops with their neighbors
Landowners stated that sharecropping was a way for poor farmers to earn a living and get out of debt. Was this true?
Yes
No
