Reconstruction

Question 1

What is share cropping?

Answer 1

Share cropping is:

• labor system that replaced slavery
• freedmen(blacks, African Americans) stayed poor
• could not afford own land so went into debt

Question 2

What was a problem facing the us after the civil war?

Answer 2

• how should the south be treated?

- how to assimulate freedom?

Question 3

What is the 13th amendment?

Answer 3

Banned slavery

Question 4

What is the 14th amendment?

Answer 4

The equal protection of laws

Question 5

What is the 15th amendment?

Answer 5

The right to vote for freedoms

Question 6

What is the Freedman’s bureau?

Answer 6

Covet agency that:

• provided food and clothing to freedmen
• set up schools
• provided medical care for blacks and poor whites

Question 7

What are Carpetbaggers?

Answer 7

Northerners who moved to the south to make money

Question 8

What is impeaching ?

Answer 8

To accuse an elected official of crime

Question 9

What was kkk(klu klux klan) ?

Answer 9

• Wanted to prevent former slaves from practicing their rights
• used violence

Question 10

What are the black codes?

Answer 10

• southern state/local laws

- made difficult for blacks to vote

Question 11

Reasons why southern governments instituted black codes?

Answer 11

• Difficult for blacks to vote

- keep freedmen from gaining political or economic power

Question 12

Hardships faced by the south after the war?

Answer 12

• farms destroyed
• cities reunited
• many freedmen need jobs

Question 13

Please vs ferguson decided?

Answer 13

Separate but equal

Question 14

Reconstruction ended

Answer 14

Northerners gave up and stopped not treating blacks unequal

Question 15

Radical reconstruction?

Answer 15

Republicans in congress took control after the election of 1866

Question 16

What is reconstruction?

Answer 16

Reconstruction is when the civil war ended the us had to come together as one to rebuild the south