Reconstruction

What was the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?

• They established a set of rules for the government.
• The amendments worked together to guarantee equal rights for African Americans.
• The amendments worked together to guarantee equal rights for White Americans.
• The amendments guaranteed jobs for African Americans. 

What was the purpose of the 13th Amendment?

• Made slavery illegal in the US
• grant citizenship to all former slaves (people born in the US)
• the purpose was to allow all citizens to the right to vote despite skin color
• allow for freedom of religion

What was the purpose of the 14th Amendment?

• Made slavery illegal in the US
• grant citizenship to all former slaves (people born in the US)
• the purpose was to allow all citizens to the right to vote despite skin color
• allow for freedom of religion

What was the purpose of the 15th Amendment?

• Made slavery illegal in the US
• grant citizenship to all former slaves (people born in the US)
• the purpose was to allow all citizens to the right to vote despite skin color
• allow for freedom of religion

How did Jim Crow laws restrict freedom of African Americans?

• The laws legalized slavery.
• The laws created segregation policies.
• It required blacks to register for citizenship.
• The laws required all blacks to become sharecroppers. 

How was slavery replaced by sharecropping?

• Sharecropping is completely different from slavery. 
• African Americans still worked on plantation for no income.

After the Civil War, could Southern leaders hold office?

• Yes!
• No!

Who were 'carpetbaggers'?

• Northerners who came South to take advantage.
• People who worked installing carpets.
• Southerners who went North to take advantage.
• People who hated Reconstruction.

Who did the Freedman's Bureau want to help?

• Recently freed African Americans
• Northerners
• Carpetbaggers
• Landowners

Which leader wanted reconciliation between the North and the South?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Jefferson Davis
• John Wilkes Booth