Quizizz - Reconstruction

What were the Black Codes?

• Laws that promoted racial equality in the Southern states

• Laws passed in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans

• Federal laws that abolished slavery throughout the United States

• Regulations that supported the economic recovery of the South after the Civil War

What is guaranteed by civil rights according to the Constitution?

• The right to vote for all citizens regardless of race

• Equal employment opportunities for all citizens

• Equal treatment under the law for all people

• The right to private property for all citizens

What was the main purpose of the Fifteenth Amendment?

• To grant citizenship to anyone born in the United States

• To deny any state the right to prevent voting based on race or color

• To establish equal educational opportunities

• To abolish slavery in the United States

What did the Fourteenth Amendment achieve?

• It ended the Civil War

• It granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to anyone born in the U.S.

• It established voting rights for all men, regardless of race

• It segregated schools in the Southern states

What was the primary role of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To enforce the Jim Crow laws in the South

• To oversee the Reconstruction of the Southern states

• To protect and help newly freed Black Americans after the Civil War

• To draft the Black Codes

What were the Jim Crow laws?

• Laws that enforced racial integration in public places

• Laws that provided economic aid to African Americans

• Laws enforcing segregation of Black people and White people in the South after the Civil War

• Laws that abolished slavery in the Confederate states

What was the main goal of Reconstruction?

• To maintain the economic structures of the antebellum South

• To ensure the continuation of slavery in modified forms

• To rebuild and reintegrate the Southern states into the Union while addressing the impacts of slavery

• To establish the Democratic Party's dominance in the Southern states

What did the Thirteenth Amendment accomplish?

• It granted the right to vote to all men, regardless of race

• It declared the end of the Civil War

• It abolished slavery in the United States

• It established the Freedmen's Bureau