Texas Reconstruction Task Cards

What is the name for a change to the Constitution?

• bill

• amendment

• charge

• law

What do people do in a free enterprise system?

• work for the government

• own their own businesses

• buy government goods

• buy what they are told to

What holiday celebrates the day enslaved people in Texas found out they were free?

• 4th of July

• Cinco de Mayo

• Junetheenth

• Diez y Seis

What is the name for the time period following the Civil War?

• slavery

• abolitionism

• modern

• reconstruction

What set of laws that limited rights continued to be enforced even after enslaved people were freed?

• Jim Crowe Laws

• The Bill of Rights

• the Compromise of 1850

• Lewis' Laws

What do you call keeping people separated based on skin color?

• slavery

• abolitionism

• segregation

• freedom

Who announced to Texas that enslaved people had to be freed and the Civil War was over?

• Abraham Lincoln

• General Granger

• General Jackson

• Jefferson Davis

What group worked to help formerly enslaved people find a place to live and work?

• carpetbaggers

• abolitionist

• The Farmer's Bureau

• The Freedman's Bureau

The Freedman's Bureau did all the the following EXCEPT:

• published phone books

• opened hospitals

• found jobs

• opened schools

Who became president when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?

• John Wilkes Booth

• George Washington

• Andrew Jackson

• Jefferson Davis