Reconstruction

What amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th

The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans citizenship
• Gave African Americans the right to vote
• Freed the slaves
• Gave landowners the right to sharecrop

The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans the right to own businesses
• Freed the Slaves
• Gave African Americans the right to vote
• Forced African Americans back into slavery

Which of the following was not a goal of Reconstruction?

• Reunite the North and the South
• Rebuild the South
• Develop the system of sharecropping
• Determine what to do with African Americans

The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War. 

• Reconstruction
• Freedman's Bureau
• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws

Which three Amendments where designed to ensure equality for the slaves?

• 17th,18th,19th
• 13th,14th,15th
• 13th,14th,16th
• 8th,9th,10th

What amendment grants all citizens equal protection of the laws?

• 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

• sharecropping

• the black codes

• Reconstruction

Literacy tests were created as a way to suppress African American voters after the passage of the _______________.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 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 in the US after the Civil War
• unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War