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The Reconstruction/Civil War Amendments are numbers 13, 14, and 15. Why did our country need to rebuild after the Civil War?

• We wanted to create a new country.

• There weren't enough jobs for everyone.

• We needed to create a new government.

• We needed to figure out what would happen to the newly freed slaves.

This amendment included the citizenship clause, due process clause, and equal protection clause.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 9th

The Reconstruction/Civil War Amendments helped to promote equality in the black community. However, there were some factors that still limited their rights. What were they?

• Slavery was abolished

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The North winning the Civil War

• Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, and literacy tests

Throughout our history why have amendments been added to the Constitution?

• To take freedoms away from citizens

• They've only been added as a last resort when nothing else has worked

• To try to help fix a problem/make a positive change

• We haven't added any amendments to the Constitution

When Thoreau said, "that government is best which governs least," he was in favor of. . .

• big government, less choice for the people

• little government, more choice by the people

• foreign governments making decisions

The Civil Rights Movement is mostly characterized by-

• non-violent civil disobedience

• violence and riots

• economic prosperity

• political corruption

Voting in elections is the civic action that shows the most fundamental responsibility of citizens in a-

• communism

• democracy

• dictatorship

• theocracy

Which term is the best meaning of "suffrage"?

• the right for women to protest
• the right to vote in elections
• citizenship
• freedom

Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1964

Separation of two or more races based on skin color

• segregation

• racism

• oppression

• facism