Reconstruction

The Civil War was fought mostly in the

• North
• South

Reconstruction means

• bringing the Southern states back into the Union
• Helping freed slaves become part of the society
• both
• neither

Southerners insisted that slaves were actually content being slaves.

• true
• false

It was clear that slaves were not content being slaves when

• Slaves stayed to work on the farms even after they were freed
• former slaves fought with the Union after the Emancipation Proclamation
• A freed slave wrote a book about it.

The 13th Amendment

• Allowed black men to vote
• Allowed all black people to vote
• Made it illega for blacks to vote

The Freedman's Bureau

• Gave land captured during the war to people in the North
• Gave land captured during the war to the army
• Gave land captured during the war to freed slaves

The "Black Codes" were a series of laws in the South that

• gave blacks even more rights and freedoms
• controlled labor and behavior of blacks
• made blacks slaves again

The 14th Amendment

• made former slaves full citizens
• ensured former slaves would never be citizens
• made Native Americans citizens

The 15th Amendment

• Guaranteed former slaves the right to vote
• Guaranteed women the right to vote
• Guaranteed Native Americans the right to vote

As blacks gained more rights

• whites welcomed them
• some white became violent, such as the Klu Klux Klan
• Racism started to disappear