Reconstruction Amendments

Read the excerpt below:

“The right of citizens...to vote shall not be denied...on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

From which of the following amendments was this excerpt taken?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Jim Crow laws, which were passed in Southern states following Reconstruction, were intended to....

• support the goals of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.

• encourage African-Americans to buy their own farms.

• provide basic education to former slaves.

• institute racial segregation.

After the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, African Americans continued to experience political and economic oppression mainly because

• the amendments were not intended to solve their problems

• many African Americans distrusted the federal government

• Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws

• poor communications kept people from learning about their legal rights

Why did President Lincoln feel the need to pass the 13th Amendment, when the Emancipation Proclamation was already in place?

• The Emancipation Proclamation only freed rebellion state slaves during the war

• Voting rights were important to Lincoln

• Lincoln wanted former slaves deemed citizens and provided with equal protection under the law

• It would bring an end to the war more quickly because the South would give up

What was the primary reason for the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868)?

• to punish the South for their secession from the Union

• to uphold the legality of the Black Codes

• to guarantee citizenship rights to newly freed slaves

• to allow former Confederate officials to hold public office

After the Civil War, the purpose of adding the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution was to:

• expand educational opportunities for African American men

• allow women to become full citizens

• guarantee African Americans equal treatment under the law

• extend constitutional rights to new territories

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the United States Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment:

• supported segregation

• protected the rights of slave owners

• guaranteed the right to an attorney

• upheld freedom of expression

What does the 15th Amendment to the Constitution primarily concern?

• property rights

• voting rights

• rights of self-expression

• rights of the accused

How did ratification of the 14th Amendment change the United States?

• It established citizenship laws and quotas fro new immigrants

• It allowed only skilled workers to become US citizens

• It granted US citizenship to African Americans

• It increased the residency requirements needed for US citizenship

Which of the following were tactics used in Southern states to stop African Americans from voting:

• Poll taxes

• Literacy Tests

• Lynching

• All of the above