Unit 5: Reconstruction

Created by the government to help formerly enslaved people

• sharecropping

• Black Codes

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Presidential Reconstruction

This order said that confiscated lands in 40 acre plots were to be given to freed people.

• Sherman's Amazing Order

• Sherman's Field Order 44

• Gettysburg Address

• Sherman's Special field Order No. 15

When a land owner provided tools and seeds, and freepeople and poor whites would provide the labor, this was known as...

• Sharecropping

• Slavery

• Teamgrowing

• Politics

Which of the following was not part of Lincoln's Presidential Reconstruction Plan?

• Everyone but high-ranking Confederate leaders and officers would be pardoned.

• Ten percent of voters in each state had to swear an Oath of Allegiance to the US.

• Each state had to provide plots of land to the Freedmen's Bureau.

• Each state had to support emancipation.

What were the Black Codes?

• secret messages used theUnderground Railroad.

• Laws governing how white people could treat freed Black people.

• plots of land given to feed people by the government.

• laws passed by state legislature to limit Black freedom.

What did "Radical Republicans" want?

• to limit the power of northern states over southern states

• Black Codes to be passed in every state

• full citizenship, voting rights, and representation in government for Black people.

• a strong federal government

The Civil Rights Act of 1866...

• allowed all enslaved people to go free.

• said that Native Americans would have full rights as citizens.

• said that all people born in the US were citizens and were guaranteed protection under the laws.

• allows all Black people to vote.

Why did the Congress attempt to impeach President Johnson?

• Johnson dismissed the Secretary of War

• Johnson wanted to und the Emancipation Proclamation

• Johnson reinstated the Freedmen's Bureau

• Johnson wanted to punish former Confederate leaders

Which the following was part of South Carolina's Constitution of 1868?

• Black women could vote and save on juries.

• Black men had to own land in order to hold office.

• The state would no longer recognize Republican or Democrat political parties.

• Representation would be based on population instead of wealth

Which agreement stated that Democrats would agree to declare Hayes the winner of the presidential election if US troops left the South?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1877

• Presidential Compromise

• Southern Compromise