Reconstruction Vocabulary

The rebuilding of the South was called ___________________.

• Recreation

• Redo

• Rename

• Reconstruction

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

• 19th amendment

Which amendment established black citizens having the same rights as white citizens?

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

• 19th amendment

Which amendment gave all MEN the right to vote?

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

• 19th amendment

What were laws passed by the Southern states after the Civil War that severely limited the rights of the newly freed African Americans?

• black codes

• Reconstruction

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedmen's Bureau

Who was the 17th President of the United States from 1865-1869. He took office after President Lincoln's assassination?

• Abraham Lincoln

• George Washington

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S Grant

What was the Federal agency set up at the end of the Civil War to distribute clothes, food, schools, medical care, and fuel to free slaves and others?

• Andrew Johnson

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• Tenant Farmers

• Segregation

Who were Northern politicians or investors who moved to the South to gain political office or financial profit?

• Tenant Farmers

• Scalawags

• Sharecropping

• Carpetbaggers

Who were influential people in the South who supported the radicals of the North and the carpetbaggers?

• Tenant Farmers

• Scalawags

• Sharecropping

• Carpetbaggers

What was a system common in the South in the late 1800s and early 1900s in which farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner with the share of the crop?

• Sharecropping

• Black Codes

• Tenant Farming

• Scalawags