social studies reconstruction

What was the purpose of the 13th amendment?

• Abolish slavery
• Abolish poll taxes
• Grant citizenship to all people born in the United States
• Legalize segregation

The main goal of Reconstruction was to......

• rebuild the South
• rebuild the North
• reunite the North and the South
• create more factories in the North

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What did the Freedman's Bureau provide?

• money, food, transportation
• food, clothing, schools, medical care
• homes, transportation, jobs
• jobs, schools, legal care

What was the purpose of the 14th amendment?

• Grant citizenship to all people born in the United States.
• It gave all men the right to vote.
• It gave all women the right to vote.
• Abolished slavery.

Why were the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments added to the Constitution?

• To provide equal rights to African American citizens.
• To legalize discrimination and segregation.
• To provide equal rights to White citizens.
• To help African Americans pay their poll taxes. 

What was the purpose of the 15th amendment?

• to abolish slavery
• gave all men (including black men) the right to vote
• grant citizenship to African Americans
• to stop segregration

What was the purpose of the Freedman's Bureau?

• to provide help to the newly freed slaves
• to provide newly freed slaves with clothing and food
• to help newly freed slaves began their new lives
• all of the above

What were Jim Crow laws?

• laws that legalized segregation against African Americans
• laws that guaranteed equal rights to all African American citizens
• laws that legalized slavery
• laws that gave more rights to African Americans

How was slavery replaced with sharecropping?

• Newly freed slaves were treated unfairly.
• Newly freed slaves continued to work in fields and received little pay.
• Newly freed slaves still had to depend on their masters in their new lives. 
• All answers are correct. 

How would life be different without the 13th amendment?

• Slaves would be free.
• Slavery would still exist. 
• African Americans would be citizens.