Unit 6 Reconstruction

What was the original goal of Reconstruction?

• to reunite the nation and rebuild southern states without slavery

• to revive the economies of the north and the south

• To provide newly freed slaves with land and money

The 13th Amendment

• gave job opportunities to white Americans and freedmen

• made the future free from slavery

• gave all African Americans the right to vote

The Freedman's Bureau was

• a group to aid Reconstruction by building the economy of the South

• an organization established by Congress to aid poor southerners

• an organization made up freedmen

• a group created to establish rules and regulations for freedmen in the U.S.

Black Codes were/was

• laws passed that limited the freedom of African Americans

• laws passed that provided economic support for freedmen

• an identifying number assigned to individual slaves

The 14th amendment

• granted suffrage for all

• officially ended slavery

• granted citizenship to freedmen

The 15th amendment

• granted all male suffrage

• officially ended slavery

• granted freedom of worship to all freedmen

Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction

• focused on rebuilding, not punishing

• determined that the southern states would be severely punished

• determined the southern states need to pay reparations

The Radical Reconstruction

• created new governments and appointed Republican governors to each southern state

• divided the south into military districts controlled by martial law

• created a new boundary that separated the north from the south

The system under which individual families contracted with landowners to work a plot of land in return for a portion of the crop is called

• community garden

• sharecropping

• land rent

In Reconstruction, most freedmen supported the candidates of what party

• tea party

• republican

• democratic