Unit 11 Day 6

Reconstruction

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a specific example of how the Freedmen’s Bureau supported former slaves? 

• Jobs were given to freedmen in the lumber industry.

• Money was given to freedmen to buy food and shelter.

• Education was provided to freedmen.

• Trains and wagons carried freedmen to the North to find jobs.

Multiple Choice

How did the Freedmen’s Bureau most assist in the reconstruction of the South?  

• By dividing large plantations and redistributing the property to former slaves

• By creating a militia to help enforce the voting rights of former slaves

• By offering legal assistance and public schooling to former slaves

• By petitioning the government to offer money to former slaves

Multiple Choice

How did sharecropping affect farmers in the South during Reconstruction?  

• By introducing new technology for growing food

• By expanding the region’s dependence on corn production

• By making landowners buy supplies from the government

• By keeping renters in debt to landlords

Reconstruction Ends

• In 1877, Rutherford B.

Hayes was elected
president of the U.S. after a
highly contested election
that divided the country

• To secure his victory, he

agreed to withdraw federal
troops from the South and
officially end
Reconstruction

• As a result, the South

quickly returned to
mistreating freedmen and
created Jim Crow laws that
segregated freedmen from
the rest of society

We’re leaving.

Reconstruction is done

Day 6

• How did Reconstruction end?

• What were Jim Crow laws?

Turn and Talk

Transcontinental Railroad

• As the country was reconnecting

politically during Reconstruction, the
transcontinental railroad was
viewed as a way to physically
connect the country

• In 1862, Congress passed the Pacific

Railway Act to build a
transcontinental railroad

• Chinese and Irish immigrants helped

build the railroad by taking on
dangerous jobs like blasting tunnels
through mountains, building bridges
over rivers, and leveling hilly areas

• The growth of railroads opened up

new markets for goods to be sold,
and helped transport people to the
West to create new settlements

Day 6

• Who helped build the Transcontinental

Railroad?

• What benefits did the Transcontinental

Railroad provide?

Turn and Talk

Open Ended

Would the event pictured have a greater political, economic, or social impact on America? Explain. 

Multiple Select

Which of the following best explains the effects of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Irish and Chinese immigrants faced intense nativism

• Environmental modifications changed the landscape

• New markets were opened for business owners

• Wages for all workers nearly doubled

• Cost of raw materials surged across the U.S.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best completes this diagram? 

• Stock market crashed nationwide

• Native Americans embraced American culture

• Latin American countries expanded trade

• New markets opened for businesses

Multiple Choice

The best selection to complete 14 is - 

• Reconstruction Codes

• Reconstruction Proclamation

• Reconstruction Acts of 1867

Multiple Choice

The best selection to complete 15 is - 

• enforce harsh penalties for illegal foreign trading

• protect the rights of African Americans in the South

• divide out farmland to newly freed African Americans

Multiple Choice

This picture of the Transcontinental Railroad shows that - 

• a passenger could travel from California to New York in under three hours

• it connected Texas to Kansas to ship cattle on railroads instead of cattle drives

• modifications were made to the environment to construct the railroad

• people disliked that this man-made object disrupted beautiful views of nature

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best completes this diagram?

• Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

• Gold was discovered in Oregon

• Union soldiers given land for their service

• Slavery was legal in the west

Multiple Choice

This list describes the nineteenth-century experience of immigrants from -   

• China

• Russia

• Italy

• Germany

Match

Match the following

• ______________________________________________________________ often left freedmen and poor whites in a cycle of debt.  

• The _________________________________________________________________ helped Black southerners adjust to freedom. 

• The _________________________________________________________________ allowed African American men to vote in elections at all levels of government. 

• _____________________________________________________________ were laws that put restrictions on freedmen in the South.   

Sharecropping

Freedmen’s Bureau

Fifteenth Amendment

Black codes

• Sharecropping

• Freedmen’s Bureau

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Black codes