Reconstruction Amendments and Challenges

The 12 year period after the Civil War is called...

• The second revolution

• Reconstruction

• The reign of terror

• Antebellum

This amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the U.S.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

This amendment said that former slaves, and anyone born or naturalized in the U.S. were citizens.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

This amendment gave African American males the right to vote

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

What did the federal government do to motivate Southerners to allow African Americans to vote?

• Sent federal troops to enforce it

• Nothing

• Said that African Americans could only count toward representation in Congress if they were allowed to vote

The Freedman's Bureau did all of the following to help newly freed slaves EXCEPT which one?

• Focus on education

• Help negotiate labor contracts

• Tell African Americans to go back to plantation work

• Provide food and medical supplies

True or False: The South did not resist reconstruction at all

• True

• False

All of the following were ways voting in the South was unfair EXCEPT:

• Poll taxes

• Giving African Americans the wrong date for election day

• Literacy Tests

• Grandfather Clause