1. Review your “Reconstruction Note Packet”. It begins on the next slide.

9. “Blacks After the Civil War” Skills Activity
Directions: Scan the following QR code and complete the exercises in your notes.

10. Read the reading “The Louisiana Black Code, 1865”.
It begins on the next slide.
Answer the questions that follow.
NOTE: A larger version of the “Black Codes” text is on a slide two slides ahead of this one.

13. Complete the Venn Diagram on the next slide (in your notes).
Information about the Jim Crow laws follows that slide just in case you need that information.

20. Copy the following graphic organizer into your notes.

21. The following slides contain miscellaneous items.

22. Practice Quiz Questions:
After the Civil War, schools were established to …
educate northern veterans.
teach black and white southerners how to deal with each other.
teach freedmen basic literacy (to read and write).
help freedmen how to set up businesses.
2. Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction were …
a. forgotten after his assassination.
b. mainly adopted by president Johnson.
c. mainly rejected by president Johnson.
d. concerned mainly with the problem of how to industrialize the South.
3. Under President Johnson’s amnesty plan, former Confederates received …
a. money.
b. food.
c. official pardons.
d. free labor from ex-slaves.
4. The 13th Amendment was passed to …
a. abolish slavery.
b. give voting rights to blacks.
c. set up black codes.
d. redistribute land in the South.

23. 5. Southern whites restricted the freedom of blacks soon after the Civil War by using…
the federal courts.
black codes.
help from the Radical Republicans in congress.
the Freedmen’s Bureau.
6. The citizenship rights of a person born or naturalized in the U.S. are protected by the …
a. 12th Amendment.
b. 13th Amendment.
c. 14th Amendment.
d. 15th Amendment.
7. In 1866, Radical Republicans demanded all of the following except …
a. black suffrage.
b. disenfranchisement (taking away the vote) of former Confederates.
c. land reform (redistributing land) in the South.
d. limitations on federal power.
8. Under the terms of the Compromise of 1877, Republican control of the presidency was NOT challenged in return
for an end to …
a. the military presence in the South.
b. black codes.
c. the Democratic Party’s control over the South.
d. Jim Crow laws.

24. 9. The Supreme Court decision that upheld “separate but equal” facilities was …
a. Civil Rights Cases.
b. the Dred Scott decision.
c. Plessy v. Ferguson.
d. Marbury v. Madison.
10. Reconstruction refers to the period in which …
a. the southern states were brought back into the Union.
b. the Civil War was fought.
c. African-Americans were enslaved.
d. Republicans lost power.