Reconstruction

The Civil War was mostly about ___.

• slavery

• sharecropping

• reconstruction

• tariffs

President Abraham Lincoln gave the ____ speech on the field in which the Battle of Gettysburg was fought.

• Treaties of Medicine Lodge Creek

• 13th Amendment

• I Have a Dream

• Emancipation Proclamation

A person who opposed slavery was called _____.

• a Buffalo Soldier

• a Rebel

• a Sharecropper

• an Abolitionist

The 13th Amendment ___.

• allowed all U.S. male citizens over 21 the right to vote

• gave all men born in the U.S. citizenship

• gave women the right to vote

• abolished slavery

This Amendment awarded all U.S. males born in the United States citizenship.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were adopted in Southern States primarily to

• enforce the terms of the 15th amendment

• keep African Americans from exercising their right to vote

• stop criminals and immigrants from voting

• eliminate bribery and corruption at polling places

Black codes were instituted to

• increase black participation in Southern politics during Reconstruction

• increase the effectiveness of the Freedmen's Bureau

• prevent blacks from having certain jobs

• maintain slavery in some sections of the Deep South

During the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877), the 15th amendment was adopted to grant African Americans

• educational opportunities

• economic equality

• freedom of speech

• voting rights

The institution of slavery was formally abolished in the United States by the

• Compromise of 1850

• Emancipation Proclamation of 1863

• Creation of the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865

• Ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865

What Amendment grants citizenship to all person born on American soil except for Native Americans.

• The 14th Amendment

• The 16th Amendment

• The 13th Amendment

• The 15th Amendment