Reconstruction

Reconstruction ended in

• 1877

• 1900

• 1865

• 1882

What organization was established to aid former enslaved African Americans in the South?

• The Slave Society

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The Former Slave Bureau

• The Freedom Society

What Amendment grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law?

• 10th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

What Amendment was ratified in 1865, and bans slavery (except for punishment for crimes) in the United States and all of its territories?

• 10th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

What Amendment ensure all citizens the right to vote, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?

• 10th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

These were laws passed in the South during Reconstruction to limit the economic and physical freedom of African Americans.

• Slave Laws

• The Treason Laws

• Black Codes

• Southern Codes

Former Confederate States could not be readmitted into the Union until they wrote new State Constitutions that adopted what Amendment?

• 10th

• 11th

• 13th

• 14th

Who could not hold office in the South during Reconstruction?

• Former Confederate military leaders

• African Americans

• People from the North

• Former slave owners

Who supervised the South during Reconstruction?

• Former Confederate soldiers

• Groups of African Americans

• British troops

• Federal troops

Most white Southerners were in favor of the Reconstruction governments that were put in place in the South.

• True

• False