Answer Key for Teachers Fasttrack to America's Past
Section 5:  Civil War and Reconstruction
Page 5 - 13 and 5 - 14   Reconstruction and Beyond
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The Pictures:
 
1.  Defeated Confederate soldiers roll up their battle flag.  The end of the Civil War left many people on both sides bitter, which greatly complicated the task of reuniting the country.
 
 

2.  Andrew Johnson, president during the years immediately after the Civil War.  He had been vice-president under Lincoln, and took office when Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.
 
 

3.  Federal agents modeling hoods worn by the Ku Klux Klan.  The KKK developed into a violent organization that terrorized Southern blacks to stop them from voting or holding political office.
Answers for the blanks:
(See the word bank at the bottom of 5 - 14.)
 
1.  ...now free, and...
2.  ...of schools were...
3.  ...totally destroyed by...
4.  ...no land or...
5.  ...and divided among...
6.   ...cold not vote...
7.   ...fell one vote...
8.   ...were bad enough...
9.   ...being elected to...
10.  ...were pushed out...
11.  ...the growth of...
12.  ...with "Jim Crow" laws...


Names and Terms List:

   Teachers and students can access a full glossary through the "Names and Terms" link on the Home Page of the Internet support site at www.fasttrackteaching.com
 
 
 

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