Reconstruction (Chapter 17)

The 14th Amendment granted...

• freedom of speech
• citizenship and equal protection
• the right to vote
• the right to a speedy and fair trial

Which of these amendments gives citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 18th Amendment

Carpetbaggers were...

• Newly freed slaves
• Southern Republicans
• Confederate Soldiers
• Northerners who took advantage of southern economic hardships 

Abraham Lincoln believed...

• African Americans needed Constitutional Amendments to guarantee voting rights
• in the southern cause
• southern states should have to prove their loyalty after the war
• preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the south

Scalawags were...

• Northerners who took advantage of southern economic hardships 
• Southern Republicans
• former Confederate Leaders
• African Americans

Black Codes were designed to do all of the following EXCEPT _________.

• Prohibit African Americans from finding a job or buying a house.

• Limit the physical freedom of former enslaved African Americans.

• Limit the economic freedom of former enslaved African Americans.

• Aid former enslaved African Americans.

After Reconstruction, the system of segregation was supported by _________.

• Immigration Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Civil Rights Laws

Slavery was abolished with the passage of the _______.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Following the Civil War, what was established to aid former enslaved African Americans in the South?

• NAACP

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Black Codes

• Temperance Movement

Black Codes were intended to...

• help African Americans gain land.
• limit the economic and physical freedom of former slaves.
• to remove Federal troops from their region.
• to give African Americans a code to communicate.