Chapter 1 Lesson 1: Reconstruction

Select the Southern Democratic states that kept the 1876 presidential election in suspense. (YSK)

• North Carolina

• Louisiana

• Texas

• Florida

Southerners who supported Reconstruction and Republican legislation (laws) were called _______.

• sharecroppers

• scalawags

• Yankee

• carpetbaggers

To which group of people does the image and the previous quote refer during the Reconstruction Era?

• Freed African Americans

• Carpetbaggers

• Southern military leaders

• Northern politicians

The end of the Civil War marked the beginning of the __________ Era.

• Reconstruction

• Renaissance

• Revolutionary

• Rebellion

Abraham Lincoln believed...

• That African Americans needed constitutional amendments to guarantee the right to vote

• in the Southern cause

• that the Southern states had to prove their loyalty after the war

• that preserving the Union was more important than punishing the South

The presidential election of 1876 resulted in...

• military supervision of the South

• the restoration of voting rights for Southern whites

• the end of Reconstruction in the South

• equal rights for African Americans

What is the best description of Reconstruction?

• rebuilding the United States after a major earthquake

• a period of rebuilding in the United States after the War of Independence

• a period of rebuilding in the United States after the Civil War

• unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

The Knights of the White Camellia were formed in ____________. (p. 8)

• New Orleans, LA

• Pulaski, TN

• Putnam County, Mississippi

• Athens, GA

When someone takes their crops to cover their debts. (p. 10)

• debt bondage

• sharecropping

• agricultural tenant

• none of these

Which amendment is illustrated in the image?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment