Use the interactive pages above to find the answers to the scavenger hunt questions.
Select all of the following who served as president during some part of Reconstruction?
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Theodore Roosevelt
The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution granted _______________ rights to all persons born in the United States.
voting
citizenship
freedom
legal
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was originally vetoed by _______________.
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
the House of Representatives
The Senate
Which was NOT true about the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
It prohibited discrimination based on race.
It declared that all people born in the United States were entitled to the same rights.
It was introduced in Congress by Senator Lyman Trumbull.
It improved racial relations in the South.
Radical Republicans believed... (select all that are true)
What was the only Confederate state that was not included in the five military districts created by the United States Government?
Tennessee
Virginia
Texas
North Carolina
When were the military districts dissolved?
1865
1866
1868
1870
In an effort to eventually rebuild the Southern economy, the United States Government passed the __________________ Act in 1862 to encourage migration to the West.
Economic Recovery
Pioneer
Homestead
Reconstruction
In 1865, President Lincoln authorized the creation of the ______________________ to assist newly freed slaves in their transition to freedom.
Office of Civil Rights
Reconstruction Acts
Freedmen's Bureau
Jim Crow Laws
In 1867, Radical Republicans impeached Andrew Johnson, charging him with violating the _____________________ .
Reconstruction Acts
13th Amendment
14th Amednment
Tenure of Office Act
In the end, Andrew Johnson....
narrowly avoided being removed from office.
was removed from office.
easily avoided being removed from office.
resigned from office.
Which of the following WAS NOT a condition that the Southern states had to satisfy before being readmitted to the Union?
They had to write new state constitutions.
They had to ratify the 14th Amendment.
They had to guaantee equal protections under the law.
They had to surrender all Confederate officers to the United States military.
People who moved to the South from the North during Reconstruction for economic opportunity were referred to as ________________________________
carpetbaggers
migrants
scalawags
Radical Republicans
White Republican Southerners who supported the Reconstruction effort were referred to as _______________.
Radicals
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Yankees
Grant's victory in the Election of 1869 was largely due to his popularity among....
women.
former enslaved people.
Union veterans.
Carpetbaggers.
In the Compromise of 1877, Republicans agreed to ...
a Democrat president.
withdraw Federal troops from the South.
add more Federal troops to problem areas of the South.