Heritage Studies 5 Chapter 8

What was the purpose of the 13th amendment?

• Allowed black people the right to vote

• Allow women to vote

• Outlaw slavery

• Defended American's civil rights

Which amendment protects American's civil rights?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

What is the purpose of the 15th amendment?

• Prohibits the denial of the right to vote

• Abolishes slavery

• Provides for the right of a jury trial

• Protects our freedom of religion

What was the purpose of the Freedman's Bureau?

• Established military control of states

• Provided food and clothing to freed black people

• Ensured the new government had racial equality

• Limited the rights of black Americans

What was the Reconstruction Act of 1867?

• Provided food, shelter, and clothing to freed slaved and poor Southerners

• Limited the rights of Black Americans

• Segregated black Americans and discriminated against them

• Established military control of and ensured racial equity for seceded states

What were the Jim Crow laws?

• Laws Democrats passed to segregate black people and discriminate against them

• Laws passed to establish military control and racial equality

• Laws that outlawed slavery

• Laws that prohibited voting rights based on race/color

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

• a Northerner who moves to the South to get a government job

• A secret group who used violent measures to take away civil rights of black Americans

• The act of cheating

• a white Southerner who worked with Northerners during reconstruction.

What is a scalawag?

• a Northerner carrying a bag made of carpet who moved to the south to get a government job

• A secret group that violently took away the rights of black Americans

• a white Southerner who worked with Northerners during reconstruction.

• To accuse a public official of wrongdoing in public

What is the term cheating to gain something unlawfully?

Who became the 17th president after Abraham Lincoln died?