Reconstruction and ending

What did the 13th amendment accomplish?

• It ended slavery in the US

• citizenship & equal protection for African Americans

• Guaranteed voting rights for African American men

Which of the following best describes the effect of the 15^th Amendment?

• a. Allowed all male citizens, including African Americans, the right to vote

• a. African Americans became U.S. citizens with the same rights

• Allowed all citizens, including women, the right to vote

Under Johnson's plan, Southern States made these laws limiting AA's rights to choose a job or a spouse, move about freely, and be elected?

• the Reconstruction Amendments

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow laws

During Reconstruction, this group used fear & violence to prevent African Americans from voting and using their rights in the S.

• Ku Klux Klan

• Radical Republicans

• Carpetbaggers

The purpose of Reconstruction was to:

• destroy the South
• politically, socially, physically, economical rebuild and unite the US

• send former slaves back to Africa
• settle the West

After the Compromise of 1877, southern states passed what laws segregating African Americans from whites in public places?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Freedman's Laws

• Literacy test

After the Civil War, which government group helped recently freed African Americans by providing food, clothing, health care, and schools?

• The Civil Rights Committee

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The Red Cross

• The Salvation Army

Poll Taxes

Literacy Tests

Grandfather Clauses

After Reconstruction ended, Southern states used laws like those above to get around which Amendment?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Many African Americans became sharecroppers in the South. Which of the following is true about sharecropping?

• Many freedmen were able to save and buy land through sharecropping

• Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty

• Many state governments offered loans for sharecropping farmers.

Which Amendment states that anyone born in the United States is a citizen?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• None of the above