Reconstruction Era

This amendment abolished slavery

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

This amendment stated anyone born in the United States is a citizen with equal rights.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

This amendment gave African American men the right to vote

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...

• establish churches to provide aid in the Southern states.

• reunify the former Confederate States and to craft a plan to readmit them to the Union.

• establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.

• abolish former Confederate governments and to punish former Confederate leaders.

After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to -

• punish plantation owners for the use of slavery

• support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South

• promote the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau

• limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment

Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?

• The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The positions taken int he Know-Nothing Party Platform

• The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War

• The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation

What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

• Agricultural workers organized labor unions

• Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt

• Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses

• Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves

The abolitionist movement achieved its goal with the passage of which amendment?

• Twelfth Amendment

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

Which of these describes a result of the Thirteenth Amendment?

• African Americans in the north could vote

• State governments were required to protect individual rights

• Former Confederate officials were prohibited from holding elected office

• African Americans in the South could freely move elsewhere

Poll Taxes

Literacy Tests

Grandfather Clauses

The measures in this list are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the -

• Compromise of 1850

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Dred Scott v. Sandford decision