FREEDMEN'S BUREAU
Which department was in charge of the Freedmen's bureau?
War Department
How old was Chloe in the poem, Learning to Read?
60
He was assassinated shortly after the end of the Civil War.
President Abraham Lincoln
What type of organization was the KKK or Ku Klux Klan?
White supremacist or racist organization or group.
President AFTER Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Amendment that abolished (ended) slavery.
13th
Who did the Freedmen's Bureau help reunite during Reconstruction.
Families who had been separated during slavery.
Organization referred to in the poem (within the first two lines)?
Freedmen's Bureau
He was known as the "veto president".
Andrew Johnson
The Klan terrorized this group in an effort to get them to go back North.
Freedmen's Bureau workers
He was elected in 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
Amendment that gave voting rights to free Blacks.
15th
Who established the Freedmen's Bureau - too bad he didn't live to see it in action.
Abraham Lincoln
He hid greasy pages in his hat.
Uncle Caldwell
She died in 1911 and worked to gain women the right to vote.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The Klan often targeted Black men who wanted to exercise this right.
The right to vote.
They had to give up part of their crops to the landowner and pay back debts.
Sharecroppers
Amendment that gave citizenship and due process rights to formerly enslaved people.
14th
What area did the Freedmen's bureau do a good job of helping freed Blacks?
Education
In the last stanza Chloe claims she felt as independent as a "_______ _______ ______ _______."
"Queen upon her throne."
He belonged to this political party and replaced Lincoln after the assassination.
Democrat Party
He lead an effort that largely wiped out the Klan in 1872.
President Grant
Another name for "sharecropper"
Tenant farmer
These amendments are known as the "Reconstruction Amendments"
13th, 14th, 15th
About how many schools were built by the Freedmen's bureau?
1000
Who wrote Learning to Read? (must know the entire name)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
He believed in pardoning the Confederates.
President Andrew Johnson
Nathan Bedford Forrest
He was the Grand Wizard (leader) of the Ku Klux Klan.
People who came South from the North who wanted to make money from Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
The year some historians think Reconstruction began.
1863