Reconstruction

The __________Amendment outlawed slavery.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Schools in the south to educate freedmen were set up by the ______________

• Union Army

• Special Field Order 15

• Freedmen's Bureau

___________________ wanted to directly help African Americans obtain full citizenship.

• Andrew Johnson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Radical Republicans

• Union Army

What amendment made all people born in the United States citizens?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

A freedman was required to have a labor contract (job) in Mississippi after 1865. This is an example of ______________.

• Fugitive slave law

• sharecropping

• the black codes

• Reconstruction

The ________________ allowed for slavery as a punishment for a crime.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Literacy tests were created as a way to suppress African American voters after the passage of the _______________.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

The 15th Amendment states that a person cannot be denied the right to vote based on ____________________.

• race.

• intellect.

• sex

What did the 15th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What was segregation?

• equal treatment for all people
• the forced separation of races
• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
• the period of time after the Civil War