Rebuilding the South
The time after the Civil War when the South was being rebuilt is called the ______ Era.
What is the Reconstruction Era?
The 13th Amendment made _______ illegal in the U.S.
What is slavery?
The system where farmers rented land and paid with crops was called _______.
What is sharecropping?
A group that used violence to stop Black people from voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan or the White League?
Some Black people got elected to government jobs during Reconstruction — True or False?
True
The Reconstruction Era happened after the ______ War.
What is the Civil War?
The 14th Amendment said everyone born in the U.S. is a citizen and has the same ______ under the law.
What are rights or protections?
Sharecropping often kept Black farmers in _______.
What is debt?
Besides the KKK, name another white group against Black rights.
Answers vary: White League, Red Shirts, etc.
What happened when the federal troops left the South in 1877?
Racism and segregation increased (Jim Crow laws).
The Reconstruction Era mostly ended in what year?
What is 1877?
The 15th Amendment gave ______ the right to vote.
Who are Black men?
What were the Black Codes?
Laws made by Southern states to limit Black people’s freedom.
What methods did the KKK use to intimidate Black voters?
Threats, violence, lynching, burning homes.
How did Reconstruction help start the later fight for civil rights?
By adding constitutional protections for equality and citizenship.
The U.S. government sent _________soldiers to the South to protect freedmen.
What are federal soldiers?
These three amendments are often called the “Reconstruction Amendments.”
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Name one way Reconstruction tried to help freed people.
Answers vary: Freedmen’s Bureau, education, jobs, land, etc.
Why did many Southern whites dislike Reconstruction?
They lost power and wanted to keep white control.
In your opinion, how does Reconstruction still affect equality in the U.S. today?
Answers vary — connects to ongoing civil rights issues.
Which president took office after Lincoln and disagreed with Congress about how to rebuild the South?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Why were the Reconstruction Amendments important for the later Civil Rights Movement?
They set a legal foundation for equality and voting rights.
What organization gave food, education, and legal help to freed slaves?
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
What word means trying to keep one race in control over another?
What is white supremacy?
Which promise by radical republicans to the formerly enslaved people was rarely fulfilled after Reconstruction ended?
What are 40 acres and a mule?