Unit 2 & Episode 3: Reconstruction Era

Reconstruction was the 12 year period after the Civil War that aimed to rebuild America both PHYSICALLY and...

• Mentally

• Morally

• Emotionally

• Ethically

T or F: Reconstruction efforts aimed to rebuild America PHYSICALLY by rebuilding the South

• True

• False

T or F: Reconstruction aimed to rebuild America MORALLY by fulfilling the Declaration of Independence's promise of FREEDOM

• True

• False

In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln gave a _______ purpose to the terrible slaughter of the Civil War

• Divine

• Reasonable

• Moral

• Antequated

In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln called for a "New _______ of ________"

• Life, Justice

• Birth, Justice

• Death, Freedom

• Birth, Freedom

Step 1 of the New Birth of Freedom was:

• Emancipation Proclamation

• General Order #143

• 13th Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

T or F: The Emancipation Proclamation was a war measure freeing all enslaved people in the SOUTH

• True

• False

Step 2 of the New Birth of Freedom was:

• General Order #141

• General Order #142

• General Order #143

• General Tso's Chicken

T or F: General Order #143 formed the US "Colored" Troops; military units of freed Blacks and freed Slaves

• True

• False

Step 3 of the New Birth of Freedom was:

• Emancipation Proclamation

• General Order #143

• 13th Amendment

• Freedman's Bureau