How Free Were African Americans after the Civil War?

Which amendment abolished slavery in 1865?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Which amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote in 1869?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Which amendment said anyone born in United States is a citizen in 1868?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

The Reconstruction Amendments are also called the _________________.

• Progressive Era Amendments
• Civil War Amendments

Southern states passed these laws that restricted African American's freedom.

• The Blue Codes
• The Black Codes

After the Reconstruction Amendments were passed, this white supremacist terrorist group was created.

• The Southern Order
• Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

You were considered Black if you were 1% African American according to the Black Codes-True or False

• True
• False

If a Freedman was unemployed, they may be arrested and required to perform forced labor-True or False

• True
• False

Homer Plessy and the other people from his organization wanted to try to get the courts to say that Jim Crow laws were _____________________________.

• separate but equal

• legal

• constitutional (in accordance with the 14th Amendment)

• unconstitutional (a violation of the 14th Amendment)

What did Homer Plessy do that got him arrested?

• Sat in the white only part of the bus.
• Took a seat in the white only car of a train.
• Sat at a white only section of a lunch counter.
• All of the above