Reconstruction

Which federal relief agency worked to provide blacks with food, clothing and an education?

The 15th amendment to the Constitution

What prompted Congress to propose the 14th Amendment?

Which amendment gave citizenship and full Constitutional rights to freed slaves?

A scalawag was a

Some African Americans held political office in the South during Reconstruction.

What do the poll tax, grandfather clause and literacy test have in common?

the separation of one group or isolation of a race, class, or group

after the Civil War, the period of rebuilding the South and readmitting the former Confederate states into the Union

the granting of a pardon to a large number of persons

What did the 13th Amendment to the Constitution do?

How did southern plantation owners deal with being without workers & former slaves being without land, animals, & tools

Which group held power in Congress during Reconstruction?

What ended Reconstruction?

The south was divided into 5 military districts, each controlled by a Union general and his army, after the Civil War.

The hate group of white supremacists that terrorized & killed African Americans, to prevent them from voting

Which of the following was NOT one of the 3 main types of problems the nation faced at the start of Reconstruction?

What name was given to the state laws that limited the rights of the newly freed African Americans?

A Northern white who moved to the South to take advantage of cheap land was a

a change, correction, or improvement added to a document

What is the historical importance of the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality

Which term best describes a poor tenant farmer who gives a part of his crop as rent?