Reconstruction Amendments

Reconstruction Amendments

-36.a: explain the roles of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments in Reconstruction

Recap

After President Abraham Lincoln’s assasination, Vice President Andrew Johnson took over the presidency. Johnson carried out Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan by first passing the 13th Amendment (Abolished Slavery). Confederate states had to ratify both the 13th and 14th (Granted blacks citizenship) in order to rejoin the Union. The 15th amendment gave black males the right to vote. 

Multiple Choice

What is the main topic addressed in the Reconstruction/Civil War Amendments?

• Unique circumstances

• The president

• Taxes

• Slavery

Multiple Choice

This amendment granted suffrage (the right to vote) to men who are black.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 9th

Multiple Choice

This amendment abolished (got rid of) slavery.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 3rd

Multiple Choice

This amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S. even if they were previously a slave.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 4th

Multiple Choice

The Reconstruction/Civil War Amendments were created after the Civil War between the North and the South. What does the word reconstruction mean?

• Tear down

• To rebuild

• Take over

• To destroy