Reconstruction and the Reconstruction Amendments

This amendment abolished slavery. 

• 12th 

• 13th 

• 14th

• 15th

This amendment says if you are born here you are a citizen. 

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This amendment says all male citizens can now vote.

• 13th

• 15th

• 19th

• 23rd

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 banned slavery throughout the nation.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

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

What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To limit the rights of African Americans

• To intimidate African Americans

• To help freedmen adjust to their new lives and building schools.

What was the purpose of Black Codes?

• To help freedmen

• To make sure freedmen got rights

• To limit the rights of freedmen 

• To take rights away from the Southern elite

Which is the best description of Reconstruction?

• rebuilding the US after a big earthquake

• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War

• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War

• unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War