Worksheets5.44-5.45 Military Reconstruction and Building a New Life
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 13mins
When did the Civil War end?
April 1865
May 1888
Dec 1886
July 1878
What struggles did the former slaves face after the war ended? Choose 2
How they would feed their families
Where they would live
Getting a horse
Buying land
What was the name of the agency that was created to help former slaves rebuild their lives?
Freedmen's Bureau
Cumberland Gap
Watauga
Syllabus
What important things did this agency do? choose 2
Gave out food, clothing and medicine
Helped educate former slaves
Started a youth program for children
Built a town for slaves
What school did the American Missionary Association build in Nashville in 1866?
Fisk school for Coloreds
Belmont
Nashville Tech
Nashville school for former slaves
How did the school pay for new buildings?
The Jubilee Singers traveled around performing concerts
The Jubilee Magicians traveled around performing tricks
The Jubilee Players traveled around performing basketball moves
The Jubilee Musicians traveled around performing concerts
Is Fisk University still a school?
Yes
No
Where is Fisk University located?
Nashville
Kingston Springs
Kentucky
Alabama
Why were groups created who aimed at controlling African-Americans through violence and intimidation? Choose 2
To bring back southern honor
They did not want former slaves to have the same rights as them
To take over the government
To start a new state
When and where was the Ku Klux Klan formed?
Nashville Tn 1867
Pulaski Tn 1965
Pulaski Tn 1865
Nashville Tn 1865
What did TN’s governor and General Assembly have to do because of the violence?
Passed a law that gave the governor power
Started a war
Met with congress about moving the state
Retreated the union troops
What is Martial Law?
The military has to control an area rather than the local police
The government takes over another country
The law that stopped the war
What were the racist laws called created by the southern states?
Black Codes
Martial Law
Jim Crowe Laws
What were some examples of these laws?
Difficult for former slaves to get jobs
Forbidden to marry whites
Forbidding former slaves to own a business
illegal for them to serve on jury or in a trail
What ended Reconstruction in the South?
The election of Rutherford B. Hayes
The election of Lincoln
The civil war
Segregation
What effect did ending reconstruction have in the south?
It allowed the local governments to take back control
It meant the civil war would start back up again
This made all people in the south equal
Describe the main goal of Jim Crow laws.
forcing separation between white and black people in public places
Ended racism in the south
Stopped the civil war
Moved the confederate states out of America
What is segregation?
Separating people based on race or religion
A type of battle fought between people
The name of the fort that Nashville
Separating the states
The Emancipation Proclamation
Ended slavery in the south
Started the civil war
Ended the union
What do you call a person who was opposed to slavery and worked toward ending it?
Secessionist
Lincolnist
Abolitionist
Whig
