4/23 Warmup Reconstruction

The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to (a)   .

• provide suffrage to African American men
• establish the Freedmen’s Bureau

• abolish the practice of slavery

In response, southern states began imposing (a)   designed to weaken the effects of the amendment.

• land grants

• military drafts

• poll taxes

A historian is writing an article for a history website. The article is divided into the following topics: - The division of the South into military districts - The impeachment of the president - The ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments Which era in U.S. history is the focus of this article?

• The Jacksonian era

• The antebellum era

• The Federalist era

• The Reconstruction era

How did sharecropping affect farmers in the South during Reconstruction?

• By introducing new technology for growing food

• By expanding the region’s dependence on corn production

• By making landowners buy supplies from the government

• By keeping renters in debt to landlords

Appomattox Court House

• Union captured the Mississippi River; divided the

  Confederacy in half

• Location where Confederacy surrendered to the Union;

  ended the Civil War

• Deadliest single-day battle of the war; showed Union could

  stand against the Confederacy

• Turning point of the Civil War; ended any further advancement

  of the Confederacy

Battle of Vicksburg

• Union captured the Mississippi River; divided the Confederacy in half

• Location where Confederacy surrendered to the Union;

  ended the Civil War

• Deadliest single-day battle of the war; showed Union could

  stand against the Confederacy

• Turning point of the Civil War; ended any further advancement

  of the Confederacy

Battle of Antietam

• Union captured the Mississippi River; divided the Confederacy in half

• Location where Confederacy surrendered to the Union;

  ended the Civil War

• Deadliest single-day battle of the war; showed Union could

  stand against the Confederacy

• Turning point of the Civil War; ended any further advancement

  of the Confederacy

Battle of Gettysburg

• Union captured the Mississippi River; divided the Confederacy in half

• Location where Confederacy surrendered to the Union;

  ended the Civil War

• Deadliest single-day battle of the war; showed Union could

  stand against the Confederacy

• Turning point of the Civil War; ended any further advancement

  of the Confederacy