Reconstruction

The __________Amendment outlawed slavery.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Schools in the south to educate freedmen were set up by the ______________

• Union Army

• Special Field Order 15

• Freedmen's Bureau

Who killed President Lincoln so he was not able to guide reconstruction?

• John Hinkley Jr.

• Lee Harvey Oswald

• John Wilkes Booth

• Ulysses Simpson Grant

What amendment made all people born in the United States citizens? Also it gave ALL citizens equal protection of the law and the right to vote.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

A freedmen was required to have a labor contract in Mississippi after 1865. This is an example of ______________.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Reconstruction

• the black codes

Jim Crow Laws that suppressed the rights and votes of African Americans.

(3 correct answers)

• literacy tests

• made it illegal for blacks to vote

• segregation laws

• poll tax (voting tax)

Which amendment states that a citizen cannot be denied the right to vote.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

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 the South and reuniting all the states in the US after the Civil War

• unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?

• limit African American rights and keep things a lot like it was with slavery

• expand Confederate rights so they could start a new war

• give women voting rights

Who could hold public office in the south during Military/ Congressional Reconstruction?

• African Americans

• Confederate Leaders

• Southern Women