Reconstruction Review for Unit 5 EXAM

The role of women in post-war America

The economic boom in the North and the decline in the South

The limited changes in Southern society and the end of Reconstruction

The Civil War battles and their outcomes

To create a federal income tax

To abolish slavery in the United States

To grant voting rights to all citizens

To establish a new economic system

They established black schools and colleges

They received financial aid from the government

They were allowed to vote without restrictions

They were given free land

To help reunite families separated by slavery and arrange for education

To promote industrial development in the South

To provide jobs for white Southerners

To enforce segregation laws

Tenant farming

Sharecropping

Cooperative farming

Industrial farming

It provided them with wealth and independence

It was a form of coerced servitude similar to slavery

It allowed them to own land

It was a temporary solution until they found better jobs

Manufacturing

Mining

Agriculture, especially cotton production

Fishing

A plantation owner

A Civil War general

A Southern politician

A former slave who escaped to freedom

To terrorize black people and maintain white supremacy

To promote racial equality

To rebuild Southern infrastructure

To support black political candidates