Reconstruction

Jim Crow Laws were laws that

• protected civil rights for African Americans.

• helped African Americans have the right to vote.

• enforced segregation (or separation) of African Americans and whites in public places throughout the United States.

The process of rebuilding the country after the Civil War, and adding the Confederate states back into the Union, was known as:

• Admittance

• Union Building

• Reconstruction

The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were added to the Constitution during the Reconstruction period to

• limit the powers of the president.

• bring an end to the Civil War.

• grant legal rights to African Americans.

How did members of the Ku Klux Klan demonstrate their anger towards African Americans?

• They used violence and terror.

• They welcomed them to new neighborhoods.

• They held peaceful protests.

What was the economic condition of the South after the Civil War?

• The Southern economy was not affected by the war.

• Much of the South was destroyed due to the battles that took place in the South, and the Union's use of total war; therefore, the south needed to be rebuilt.

• The economy of the South was prosperous, and businesses, farms and plantations continued to thrive and do very well.

A special tax that people were required to pay before they could vote was known as a ______________________.

• voting tax

• equality tax

• poll tax