Reconstruction

This is the name of the period of time the followed the end of the Civil War.

• Building Era

• Reconstruction Era

• Rebuild Era

• Post Civil War Era

This organization gave food, clothing, medicine, and other supplies to freed slaves. It built thousands of schools.

• Freedom's Bureau

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Hope Bureau

• Helpful Bureau

The main goal of these laws were to keep whites and African Americans separate in public places.

• Racial Segregation Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Separation of Color Laws

• Literacy Tests

This amendment abolished (ended) slavery in the whole country.

• 19th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

The ____________ Amendment grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States. This meant that all African Americans that were enslaved were now American citizens.

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

• 19th

The ______________ Amendment gave all African American MEN the right to vote. It was illegal to deny African American men the right to vote.

• 14th

• 16th

• 13th

• 15th

The 14th Amendment granted...

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

Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?

• limit African Americans rights
• expand Confederate rights
• give women voting rights
• jail Carpetbaggers

Which laws allowed Union Soldiers to supervise the south during Reconstruction?

• Jim Crow Laws
• the Voting Rights Act
• the Amnesty Act
• the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Military Reconstruction Act

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