Reconstruction

This amendment abolished slavery. 

• 12th 
• 13th 
• 14th
• 15th

This group helped newly freed slaves with food, medical care, jobs, housing and schooling. 

• Sharecropping
• Jim Crow Laws
• Reconstruction
• Freedmen's Bureau 

Amendment to the US Constitution that ensured the citizenship of former slaves.  It provides “equal protection of the laws” for all U.S. citizens.

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• Civil Rights Act of 1866

Amendment to the US Constitution that forbade any state to deny any citizen the right to vote due to “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Equal protection under the law

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• Civil Rights Act of 1866

Northerners who went South after the Civil War during the time of Reconstruction

• Scalawags
• Carpetbaggers
• Pioneers
• Homesteaders

An ______________ is a change to the U.S. Constitution.

• ratify
• amendment
• assassination

During Reconstruction the South was under Military rule

• True
• False

The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• guarantees African Americans free speech
• Outlawed slavery in the United States
• gave African Americans the right to vote
• rejoined the South and the North

The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans citizenship
• Gave African Americans the right to vote
• Freed the slaves
• Gave landowners the right to sharecrop

The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans the right to own businesses
• Freed the Slaves
• Gave African Americans the right to vote
• Forced African Americans back into slavery