Reconstruction

People

100

This is the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth

200

This Man was Abraham Lincoln's Vice President 

Andrew Johnson 

300

This man was Lincoln's top general during the civil war and the 18th president of the United states

Ulysses S Grant 

400

This man was one of America's first great black speakers, and had meetings with both President Lincoln and Grant during his life. 

Frederick Douglass. 

500

This man was the plaintiff in an 1890 Supreme court ruling on the separate but equal doctrine.  

Homer Plessy

Presidents

100

This President was assassinated a week after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox 

Abraham Lincoln 

200

This President was one vote away from being impeached

Andrew Johnson 

300

This man was the President at the end of the reconstruction era

Rutherford B Hayes 

400

This President agreed with the radical republicans 

Ulysses S Grant 

500

This President wanted to show leniency to the South following the Civil war.  

Abraham Lincoln 

Economies

100

After the Civil War, the condition of the economy in the South 

A) Industrialized

B) Agricultural

C) Devastated

D) Unharmed 

C) Devastated

200

The economy of the ______________ had grown rapidly during the civil war giving rise to big business. 

A) North

B) South 

A) North 

300

Under the system of  ______________________

 Black families would rent small areas of land, or shares, to work themselves; in return, they would give a portion of their crop to the landowner at the end of the year.

Sharecropping 

400

Daily Double: What are two possible reasons why the Northern economy was prospering after the Civil War. (Dont write on board just answer) 

1) the North had little rebuilding to do because few battles had been fought in the North 

2) Northern factories had been busy throughout the war making supplies for the Union troops

 3) Northern factories continued to be busy making supplies needed to rebuild the South

500

Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Freedman's Bureau 

Terms

100

Period of history following the Civil War. (The Unit we are currently learning about) 

Reconstruction 

200

State and local laws that legalized racial segregation in the 1880s.

Jim Crow Laws 

300

Northerners who took advantage of southern economic hardships

A) Sharecroppers

B) Carpetbaggers

C) Scallawags

D) Radical Republicans

B) Carpetbaggers 

400

white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies

A) Sharecroppers

B) Carpetbaggers

C) Scallawags

D) Radical Republicans

C) Scallawags

500

These were the members of the Congress who favored policies to force radical changes in Southern life and politics

Radical Republicans 

Miscellaneous

100

Which is the best description of Reconstruction?

A) rebuilding the US after a big earthquake

B) a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War

C) a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War

D) unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

C) a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War

200

Which of these amendments gives citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude?

A) 13th Amendment

B) 14th Amendment

C) 15th Amendment

D) 18th Amendment

C) 15th amendment 

300

Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?

A) limit African Americans rights

B) expand Confederate rights

C) give women voting rights

D) jail Carpetbaggers

A) limit African Americans rights

400

Who could hold public office in the south during Reconstruction?

A) African Americans

B) Confederate Leaders

C) Southern Women

D) American Indians

A) African Americans

500

The Presidential Election of 1876 resulted in...

A) military supervision of the south

B) the restoration of voting rights for white southerners

C) the end of Reconstruction in the south

D) equal rights for African Americans

C) the end of Reconstruction in the south