reconstruction

The period following the Civil War when the U.S government and state governments attempted to negotiate a new social and political order for the South. *

• civil rights era

• reconstruction

• new movements in America

Which amendments are considered the "Reconstruction" amendments?

• 12th,14th,15th

• 15th,16th,17th

• 13th,14th,15th

• 13th,15th,19th

what is the importance of the 13th amendment?

• It made slavery illegal

• it gave African American men the right to vote

• gave citizen rights to African American men

• it allowed the South to initiate the purge protocol

The ________ Amendment redefined the terms of American democracy, but it did not grant women suffrage.

• 14th

• 13th

• 15th

In the 20th Century the ________ Amendment would become an important tool to break down segregation.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Why did southern states pass Black codes?

• to improve working conditions for African Americans

• to limit the rights of African Americans

• to allow African Americans to rent property

Following the Civil War, many African Americans in the South rented a portion of a white landowner's farm in exchange for part of the crop yield which was known as ____________________________.

• SHARECROPPING

• borrowing land

• farm renting

Who became President Lincoln's successor?

• William Tecumseh Sherman

• Andrew Johnson

• Neither

• Both

What was the importance of the 14th Amendment?

• it gave African Americans the right to vote.

• It extended citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States in 1868

• it made slavery illegal in the United States

• it gave women the right to vote

The Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed African American men ______________________________.

• 5 acres of land to live on

• the right to hold office

• the right to vote

• freedom