Chapter 7 Lesson 2 Reconstruction

1) The time of rebuilding and change was called....

• A. reconstruction

• B. transition

• C. transformation

2) TRUE OR FALSE: The Emancipation Proclamation freed all enslaved people.

• True

• False

3) On June, 1866 African Americans celebrated the anniversary of the great news of being freed. The holiday is known as __________.

• a) Martin Luther KIng Jr. Day

• b) Freedom Week

• c) Juneteenth

4) TRUE OR FALSE: The Freedmen's Bureau did not help African Americans with their needs.

• True

• False

5) TRUE OR FALSE: The Freedman's Bureau helped both African Americans and white landowners adjust to the new economy.

• True

• False

6) TRUE OR FALSE: Under the Freedmen's Bureau African Americans were allowed to go to school and many began going.

• True

• False

7) A _______ is a farmer who pays part of what he or she grows to a landowner.

• a) Tejano

• b) sharecropper

• c) business owner

8) On _________, Texas rejoined the United States after the new legislature voted on new amendments to the Unites States Constitution.

• a) May 30, 1877

• b) March 30, 1869

• c) March 30, 1870

9) TRUE OR FALSE: Segregation is racial seperation, or keeping African Americans separte from white people.

• True

• False

10) TRUE OR FALSE: Years after the Reconstruction period, many African American's lost many of the rights they were granted, such as the right to vote, and they were treated unfairly well into the the 1900's.

• True

• False