Reconstruction 2025

Which historic document granted freedom to enslaved peoples living in the Confederacy?

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Abolitionist

The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution dealt primarily with---

• The rights of formerly enslaved people

• the rights of workers to form labor unions

• protecting the rights of women

• limiting the rights of former Confederate leaders

Immediately after the Civil War, which action by white Southern legislators most enraged Northern Congressmen?

• Refusing to let African Americans participate in the sharecropping system

• Forcing African Americans to move to the North

• Granting voting rights to African Americans

• Enacting the "Black Codes"

Use the chart below to answer the question.

Texas during Reconstruction

The 13th Amendment abolished slavery Texas plantation owners had very little cash A new system of labor was necessary for farming

How did Texas address the labor problems described above?

• Texas reversed the child labor laws

• Freed slaves began sharecropping in Texas

• Local leaders began hiring workers from Mexico

• Farmers began to recruit workers from northern cities

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

This statement reveals President Abraham Lincoln's support for---

• A new peace treaty with France

• voting rights for all adults

• a fair and generous peace with Southern States

• harsh punishment for all Confederate leaders

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

This statement reveals President Abraham Lincoln's support for---

• A new peace treaty with France

• voting rights for all adults

• a fair and generous peace with Southern States

• harsh punishment for all Confederate leaders

What was the main reason supporters joined the creation of the Ku Klux Klan during late Reconstruction Era?

• to support the South during the Civil War

• to eliminate sharecropping throughout the South

• to prevent formerly enslaved persons from exercising their rights

• to encourage European immigrants to settle in the South

True or False? The 15^th Amendment gave women the right to vote.

• True
• False

Identify what the Emancipation Proclamation did.

• freed slaves in the Confederate states
• ended slavery in the entire country
• freed slaves in the border states
• ended the Civil War

Which of these occurred as a result of the 15th amendment?

• African American families divided by slavery were reunited
• Newly free men and women moved west to claim land
• African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election
• Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship