WorksheetsReconstruction Assessment
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 55mins
On which of the following issues did Lincoln, Johnson and Congress agree?
Punishment of the South
Reunification of the Nation
Prosecution of Confederate Leaders
Formation of the Freedmen's Bureau
The Thirteenth Amendment:
Guarantees the right to vote to all male citizens.
Outlaws slavery in all parts of the United States.
Declares unconstitutional any laws banning slavery.
Grants full citizenship to all people born in the United States.
The Fourteenth Amendment:
Guarantees the right to vote to all male citizens.
Outlaws slavery in all parts of the United States.
Declares unconstitutional any laws banning slavery.
Grants full citizenship to all people born in the United States.
The Fifteenth Amendment:
Guarantees the right to vote to all male citizens.
Outlaws slavery in all parts of the United States.
Declares unconstitutional any laws banning slavery.
Grants full citizenship to all people born in the United States.
Many African Americans choose to become sharecroppers due to
Plantation owners were able to treat them like slaves.
African Americans did not have to have money upfront to pay for the land.
Plantation owners and African Americans having mutual respect and a vested interest in the land.
African Americans were able to use seeds and equipment owned by the plantation owners for free.
The Freedmen's Bureau succeeded in
Keeping ex-Confederate supporters out of office.
Electing African Americans to southern state governments.
Redistributing formerly white-owned land to freed African Americans.
Providing clothing, medical care. food and education to many freed African Americas.
Radical Republicans in Congress believed that
African Americans should receive full citizens' rights.
Federal power should be subordinate to states' authority.
Political power should be quickly restored to Southerners.
The South should not face any harsh punishments due to secession.
As white Southerners regained control of state governments, they began to
refuse to pay war debts.
join the Republican Party.
compensate former slaves.
reverse Reconstruction Era reforms.
Reconstruction came to an end when
President Johnson was impeached.
the fifteenth Amendment was ratified.
the Freedmen's Bureau was dismantled.
federal troops were removed from the South.
Carpetbaggers were Northern Republicans who
voted with the Democrats.
moved to the post war South.
had once supported secession.
hired freedmen to work on plantations.
"...Cooper Hughes Freedman with his wife and one other woman, and the said Charles Roberts with his wife Hannah and one boy are to work on [the] farm and to cultivate forty acres in corn and twenty acres in cotton, to assist in putting the fences on said farm in good order and to keep them so and to do all other work on said farm necessary to be done to keep the same in good order....
...to raise a good crop and to be under the control and directions of said IG Bailey and to receive for their said services one half of the cotton and one third of the corn and fodder raised by them on said farm in said year 1867 and the said Charles Roberts Freedman with his wife Hannan further agrees and binds themselves to do the washing and ironing, and all other necessary house work for said IG Bailey and his family during said year 1867 and to receive for their services fifty dollars in money at the expiration of [the] year 1867 and ... Cooper Hughes Freedman further agrees and binds himself to give the necessary attention of feeding the stock of cattle and milking the cows twice daily belonging to said IG Bailey, and do the churning whenever necessary during the year"
What type of document is this source?
Epic Poem
Personal Diary
Legal Document
Government Letter
"...Cooper Hughes Freedman with his wife and one other woman, and the said Charles Roberts with his wife Hannah and one boy are to work on [the] farm and to cultivate forty acres in corn and twenty acres in cotton, to assist in putting the fences on said farm in good order and to keep them so and to do all other work on said farm necessary to be done to keep the same in good order....
...to raise a good crop and to be under the control and directions of said IG Bailey and to receive for their said services one half of the cotton and one third of the corn and fodder raised by them on said farm in said year 1867 and the said Charles Roberts Freedman with his wife Hannan further agrees and binds themselves to do the washing and ironing, and all other necessary house work for said IG Bailey and his family during said year 1867 and to receive for their services fifty dollars in money at the expiration of [the] year 1867 and ... Cooper Hughes Freedman further agrees and binds himself to give the necessary attention of feeding the stock of cattle and milking the cows twice daily belonging to said IG Bailey, and do the churning whenever necessary during the year"
What is the purpose of this source?
To make sure that the fence is put up around the farm.
To give the women, of the family, a job to do in the home.
To determine how much corn and cotton will be created in a year.
To create a contract between IG Bailey and Cooper Freedman and Charles Roberts.
"...Cooper Hughes Freedman with his wife and one other woman, and the said Charles Roberts with his wife Hannah and one boy are to work on [the] farm and to cultivate forty acres in corn and twenty acres in cotton, to assist in putting the fences on said farm in good order and to keep them so and to do all other work on said farm necessary to be done to keep the same in good order....
...to raise a good crop and to be under the control and directions of said IG Bailey and to receive for their said services one half of the cotton and one third of the corn and fodder raised by them on said farm in said year 1867 and the said Charles Roberts Freedman with his wife Hannan further agrees and binds themselves to do the washing and ironing, and all other necessary house work for said IG Bailey and his family during said year 1867 and to receive for their services fifty dollars in money at the expiration of [the] year 1867 and ... Cooper Hughes Freedman further agrees and binds himself to give the necessary attention of feeding the stock of cattle and milking the cows twice daily belonging to said IG Bailey, and do the churning whenever necessary during the year"
This shows which theme in American history?
slavery
sharecropping
industrialization
labor in factories
"...Cooper Hughes Freedman with his wife and one other woman, and the said Charles Roberts with his wife Hannah and one boy are to work on [the] farm and to cultivate forty acres in corn and twenty acres in cotton, to assist in putting the fences on said farm in good order and to keep them so and to do all other work on said farm necessary to be done to keep the same in good order....
...to raise a good crop and to be under the control and directions of said IG Bailey and to receive for their said services one half of the cotton and one third of the corn and fodder raised by them on said farm in said year 1867 and the said Charles Roberts Freedman with his wife Hannan further agrees and binds themselves to do the washing and ironing, and all other necessary house work for said IG Bailey and his family during said year 1867 and to receive for their services fifty dollars in money at the expiration of [the] year 1867 and ... Cooper Hughes Freedman further agrees and binds himself to give the necessary attention of feeding the stock of cattle and milking the cows twice daily belonging to said IG Bailey, and do the churning whenever necessary during the year"
What is a limitation of this source?
It does not show why the arrangements were made at this time.
It does not show how all the parties felt about this arrangement.
It only shows the jobs to be performed and the payments to be received.
All of the above - they are all limitations of the source.
"...Cooper Hughes Freedman with his wife and one other woman, and the said Charles Roberts with his wife Hannah and one boy are to work on [the] farm and to cultivate forty acres in corn and twenty acres in cotton, to assist in putting the fences on said farm in good order and to keep them so and to do all other work on said farm necessary to be done to keep the same in good order....
...to raise a good crop and to be under the control and directions of said IG Bailey and to receive for their said services one half of the cotton and one third of the corn and fodder raised by them on said farm in said year 1867 and the said Charles Roberts Freedman with his wife Hannan further agrees and binds themselves to do the washing and ironing, and all other necessary house work for said IG Bailey and his family during said year 1867 and to receive for their services fifty dollars in money at the expiration of [the] year 1867 and ... Cooper Hughes Freedman further agrees and binds himself to give the necessary attention of feeding the stock of cattle and milking the cows twice daily belonging to said IG Bailey, and do the churning whenever necessary during the year"
Which of the following is a strength of the source?
It explains how people felt about farming during Reconstruction.
It explains why 1867 was such a pivotal year in America's history.
It shows an example of the fear that African Americans felt during that era.
It shows an example of an agreement by a farmer and his former slaves during Reconstruction.
