Reconstruction Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What is Reconstruction? | The period after the Civil War when the South was being rebuilt |
True or False? Freed slaves needed housing, clothing, food, and jobs. | True |
True or False? Banks were open during Reconstruction. | False |
True or False? Railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were destroyed during the Civil War. | True |
True or False? Confederate money was worth as much as gold during Reconstruction. | False. It was worthless. |
What are some examples of how the problems of Reconstruction were solved? | Freedman's BureauSharecropping |
What government agency provided food, clothing, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and the rest of the south? | Freedman's Bureau |
What is sharecropping? | A system where freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop. |
Yes or No? Did African American's have any power in the south in the late 1800's after the Civil War? | Yes, because Northerners had taken control of the south. |
What are the Jim Crow laws? | These made the seperation of whites and blacks legal in the south. |
True or False? After Jim Crow laws were passed, African Americans had to pay a poll tax in order to vote. | True |
True or False? Jim Crow laws made it easier for African Americans to hold office. | False |
True or False? Because of Jim Crow, African Americans had to pass a difficult test in order to vote. | True |
True or False? Public schools were desegregated after the Jim Crow laws were passed | False. The schools were segregated(black and white children attended different schools) |
What is Reconstruction? | Reconstruction was a time when the country was trying to rebuild the country, especially the South. |
What did the South have to do before being allowed back in the Union? | The South had to aggree to free slaves |
Reconstruction was a period after which war? | Civil War |
What did White people create to keep black people separated? | Jim Crow Laws |
What did White people create to keep black people from being treated equal? | Black Codes |
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