Texas History Reconstuction

The 13th amendment to the Constitution was the first of the "Reconstruction Amendments," What was the purpose of this amendment?

• to give women the right to vote

• to allow the Confederate States to re-enter the Union

• to give African Americans the right to vote

• to abolish slavery

The period after the Civil War when the United States started to rebuild was called

What amendment ended slavery?

• 12th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

A federal organization that helped former slaves with food, housing, and medicine.

• Slave Codes

• Underground Railroad

• Freedmans' Bureau

• Medicare

What does abolish mean?

• to get rid of

• to make shiny

This Amendment gave African Americans voting rights after the Civil War - 

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

The 'citizenship' Amendment was the ______ Amendment

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

Black Codes were meant to limit the freedoms of -

• African Americans
• Southern Leaders
• Northern Carpetbaggers
• White Landowners 

1870, grates voting rights to all men regardless of their race or color or because they have previously been slaves

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

1868, makes all persons born in the United States—including former slaves— citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws. 

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