Reconstruction

Which is the best description of Reconstruction?

• rebuilding the US after a big earthquake
• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War
• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War
• unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

The 14th Amendment granted...

• freedom of speech
• citizenship and equal protection
• the right to vote
• the right to a speedy and fair trial

Which of these amendments gives citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 18th Amendment

The 13th Amendment ...

• banned slavery
• grants voting rights
• grants citizenship and equal protection
• restores Confederate rights

Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?

• limit African Americans rights
• expand Confederate rights
• give women voting rights
• jail Carpetbaggers

Carpetbaggers were...

• Newly freed slaves
• Southern Republicans
• Confederate Soldiers
• Northerners who took advantage of southern economic hardships 

Abraham Lincoln believed...

• African Americans needed Constitutional Amendments to guarantee voting rights
• in the southern cause
• southern states should have to prove their loyalty after the war
• preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the south

The Presidential Election of 1876 resulted in...

• military supervision of the south
• the restoration of voting rights for white southerners
• the end of Reconstruction in the south
• equal rights for African Americans

These were used to take away the rights of African Americans in the South after the Civil War.

• Amendments

• White Codes

• Black Codes

• Civil Rights

This group used fear & violence to prevent African Americans from voting in the South following Reconstruction

• Black Codes

• Ku Klux Klan

• Radical Republicans

• Carpetbaggers