SS GED Civil War & Reconstruction

With reference to the Civil War, Reconstruction is:

The process of constructing a new war

The period just after the Civil War where the nation began the process of reunification

The process of creating a new, slave-free society

What did President Lincoln's 10% Plan do?

Forced 10% of voters in the South to move to the North

Forced 10% of voters in the South to stop owning slaves

Forced 10% of voters in a southern state to swear an Oath of Allegiance before rejoining the Union

Freed the slaves

What is sharecropping?

Where farmers shared the burdens of farming the crops

A new system where more than one person crops your hair

A community type of garden where the crops are shared

A system where families rented land from owners who took a share of the crops in exchange for rent

During the Civil War, vagrancy was considered to be:

Loitering, wandering, or homelessness that became a criminal act

The process of a home becoming vacant

Loitering, or waiting around a courthouse for a court decision

Which Amendments to the Constitution focused on ending slavery?

Amendments 13, 14, 15

Amendments 14, 15, 16

Only the 13th Amendment

Amendments 10-16

What is penal labor?

Work that is menial or shaming

Work done in prison or as punishment

Work done as part of a chain gang

Work done in exchange for goods or services

After the Civil War, Black Codes did what?

Were laws passed in many southern states to restrict former slaves and continue slavery

Were laws that only hired Black people

Were laws that became created by Black People for freed Black People

President Lincoln was assassinated. What does that mean?

President Lincoln ended the Civil War

President Lincoln was murdered

President Lincoln was murdered for political reasons

President Lincoln killed someone.

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