Reconstruction

What was a major result of the Reconstruction Period?

• The political and economic rights of women were expanded and strengthened.

• The power of the states increased at the expense of the Federal Government.

• Racial segregation in United States schools ended.

• The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were added to the United States Constitution.

What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution?

• punishing the South for seceding from the Union

• granting basic rights to formerly enslaved persons

• allowing the states to veto federal laws

• creating a "separate but equal" society

As the Civil War ended, which action was supported by President Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans?

• abolishing the institution of slavery by a constitutional amendment

• passing Black Codes to guarantee equality for formerly enslaved persons

• putting Confederate leaders on trial for war crimes

• ending the military occupation of the South immediately

Base your answer to the next question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the Untied States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.– 14th amendment, Section 1, United States Constitution

This amendment was adopted in 1868 primarily to

• protect the rights of formerly enslaved persons

• make it easier for immigrants to become citizens

• extend suffrage to settlers on the Great Plains

• require the federal government to pay the costs of Reconstruction

After the Civil War, the purpose of adding the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution was to

• grant civil and political rights to Native American Indians

• allow women to become full citizens

• guarantee African Americans equal treatment under the law

• extend constitutional rights to new territories

Base your answer to question on the passage from the trial transcript below and on your knowledge of social studies.

... MISS ANTHONY: When I was brought before your honor for trial, I hoped for a broad and liberal interpretation of the Constitution and its recent amendments, that should declare all United States citizens under it protecting aegis [shield]–that should declare equality of rights the national guarantee to all persons born or naturalized in the United States. But failing to get this justice–failing, even, to get a trial by a jury not of my peers–I ask not leniency at your hands–but rather the full rigors of the law....

Source: United States v. Susan B. Anthony, 1873

The constitutional amendments referred to in this statement were ratified to

• end the importation of slaves

• increase federal revenue

• institute national Prohibition

• provide legal rights to African Americans

Which Supreme Court decision created the need for a constitutional amendment that would grant citizenship to formerly enslaved persons?

• Marbury v. Madison

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

What was a common purpose of the three amendments added to the United States Constitution between 1865 and 1870?

• extending suffrage to Southern women

• reforming the sharecropping system

• granting rights to African Americans

• protecting rights of Southerners accused of treason

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” This statement is part of the

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott decision

• 13th amendment to the Constitution

Constitutional amendments adopted during Reconstruction were intended to

• provide legal and political rights for African Americans

• end property and religious qualifications for voting

• correct problems with the electoral college system

• limit the number of terms of the president