Reconstruction

Amendment that abolished slavery

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Amendment that gave citizenship to freed slaves

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Amendment that gave voting rights to all adult males

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Freedmen wanted

• to be dependent on the government.

• to have access to land and education.

• to go back to slavery.

Southerners wanted

• life the way it was before the Civil War.

• to grant rights to all freedmen.

• to pay former slaves for their work.

Which group used violence and threats against the freedmen?

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Ku Klux Klan

• Churches

Who became president after Lincoln was shot?

• Andrew Johnson

• Thomas Jefferson

• Andrew Jackson

The U.S. Congress wanted to ensure that

• the Civil War wasn't fought in vain.

• the freedmen went back to being slaves.

• the Black Codes were enforced in the South.

What happened to President Abraham Lincoln?

• He got sick and died.

• He was shot by an assassin.

• He died of old age.

Northerners who tried to get government jobs in the South

• scalawags

• carpetbaggers

• politicians