Reconstruction Era

What does the Reconstruction Era consist of?

• rebuild the North and readmit the Union states back into the South

• rebuild the West and readmit the Confederate states back into the Union

• rebuild the West and readmit the Union states back into the Confederacy

• rebuild the South and readmit the Confederate states back into the Union

What did the Freedmen’s Bureau provide for African-Americans?

• set up former slaves to be killed after setting them free.

• set up former slaves with schools, clothing, and medical care after the civil war

• set up free blacks to run for political positions

• set up former slaves to read and write in schools.

The Freedman's Bureau helped the most with ?

• Building schools for whites

• Building schools for the North

• Building schools for the whites in the West

• building schools for African American children

This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...

• establish churches to provide aid in the Southern states.

• reunify the former Confederate States and to craft a plan to readmit them to the Union.

• establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.

• abolish former Confederate governments and to punish former Confederate leaders.

What were free slaves called? (a)  

• Indentured servants
• Abolitionists
• Colonists
• freedmen

The period after the Civil War when the United States started to rebuild was called

A federal organization that helped former slaves with food, housing, and medicine.

• Slave Codes

• Underground Railroad

• Freedmans' Bureau

• Medicare

What does abolish mean?

• to get rid of

• to make shiny

Which BEST describes Reconstruction?

• Georgia's railroads were rebuilt.

• South experienced growth in industry.

• United States reestablished trade with Europe.

• U.S. government tried to ensure equal rights for all.

Answer explanation

Reconstruction failed at attempting to heal the nation and grant equal rights to former slaves.

Era of rebuilding after the Civil War; Readmitting the Confederate states into the Union

• Impeachment

• Homestead

• Republicans

• Reconstruction