Reconstruction

Match each amendment with the correct description.

• allowed voting rights for all races

• 15th Amendment

• gave citizenship to freedpeople

• 14th Amendment

• abolished slavery

• 13th Amendment

When was the Reconstruction era?

• 1836-1845

• 1845-1861

• 1861-1865

• 1865-1876

Which is a true statement about the Reconstruction era?

• only whites were allowed to participate in government

• African Americans were elected to Congress

How did the Freedmen's Bureau help families after slavery ended?

• established schools and gave food, clothes, and medicine to people in need

• helped freed people create an army to fight against the KKK

How did Jim Crow laws affect people living in the South?

• required separate facilities for people of different races

• allowed all races to share facilities

Which holiday celebrates the end of slavery?

• Juneteenth

• July 4

Which tactics were used by Southern leaders to stop African Americans from voting during Reconstruction?

• poll taxes

• literacy tests

• Granfather Clause

• 15th Amendment

Reorder the following events from first to last.

• US Constitution was changed to allow equal rights for African Americans

• Southern states seceeded from the US to create a new nation

• Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the US

• Southern states were defeated during the Civil War

Black Codes were . . .

• racist laws which controlled the behavior of African Americans

• laws passed so that freed slaves would be protected and respected

What was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan?

• use violence to stop African Americans from voting

• help the Union fight against the Confederacy