Reconstruction
Reconstruction means to
a. rebuild
b. conquer
c. free
d. expand
rebuild
Freedmen were people who used to _____.
a. own slaves
b. serve in the army
c. live in another country
d. be slaves
be slaves
to murder someone who is of political importance
assassinate
What happened to Abraham Lincoln at the end of the Civil War?
He was assassinated
a Northerner who went south to get government jobs after the Civil War
a. carpetbagger
b. scalawag
carpetbagger
Who were three groups of Americans after the Civil War?
the freedmen, the Southerners, the Northerners
How did Northerners react to the report that the South was mistreating Freedmen?
a. They were angry and wanted change
b. They demanded a second war begin
c. They did not care about the Freedmen
d. They supported the Southern states
They were angry and wanted change
president during the Civil War who brought about the emancipation of the slaves and was killed by John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
A decade is a period of how many years?
10
Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?
a. Thomas Nast
b. John Wilkes Booth
c. Andrew Jackson
d. Carl Shurz
Why did Congress take over Reconstruction?
a. because they felt that president Lincoln's policies were not protecting the freedman
b. because they felt that President Johnson’s policies were not protecting the freedmen
because they felt that President Johnson’s policies were not protecting the freedmen
The ___________ ____________ helped people who lost their homes during the war and much more. It was set up to help all southerners, its main work focused on the Freedman.
Freedman's Bureau
served as Abraham Lincoln’s vice president; became the seventeenth president after Lincoln’s death; faced many decisions about Reconstruction
a. Carl Shurz
b. Daniel Payne
c. Andrew Johnson
d. Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
the making of things or providing of services for the purpose of making money
a. bankrupt
b. corruption
c. industry
d. society
industry
a free black American educator of the Civil War era; the first African American to become president of an American college
a. Daniel Payne
b. Andrew Johnson
c. Charles Shurz
Daniel Payne
______ _________reported that Johnson’s decisions were not working. Southerners were mistreating freedmen and Northern civilians. Southerners were passing laws that were bad for the freedmen.
a. Thomas Nast
b. John Wilkes Booth
c. Carl Shurz
Carl Shurz
a political cartoonist during the 1800s whose work made fun of corrupt people and influenced the thinking of many Americans
a. Daniel Payne
b. Thomas Nast
c. John Wilkes Booth
d. Andrew Jackson
Thomas Nast
condition when a person is not able to pay money that is owed
bankrupt
A bribe is an example of ____.
a. reconstruction
b. industry
c. corruption
d. constitutional amendment
corruption
Landowners allowed poor white and black farmers to rent plots of land. In return the farmer gave the landowner a share of the crops.
Sharecropping
Congress created ____ military districts.
a. 5
b. 6
c. 4
five
Which amendment abolished slavery?
a. 12th
b. 13th
c. 14th
d. 15th
13th
a Union Civil War general who was elected the eighteenth president of the United States in 1868
a. Thomas Nast
b. Ulysses S. Grant
c. Daniel Payne
d. Blanche Bruce
Ulysses S. Grant
a group of people who live and work together and have similar cultures and beliefs
a. industry
b. society
c. corruption
d. bankrupt
society
a gift of money or favor to cause someone to make a decision
a. society
b. corruption
c. bribe
d. bankrupt
bribe