Reconstruction

What does the 14th Amendment state?

• It abolished slavery.

• It guarantees the right to vote.

• It states that all people born or naturalized in the U.S. are citizens with full rights.

• It established the federal income tax.

What is the 13th Amendment?

• guarantees the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

• states that all people born or naturalized in the US are United states citizens w/ full rights and are entitled to due process; ratified 1968

• abolished merchants selling; passed Congress in February 1895 and was ratified in December 1965

• abolished slavery; passed Congress in January 1865 and was ratified in December 1865

Which amendment guarantees voting rights regardless of race?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

What was the main purpose of the Reconstruction plans?

• To establish new states.

• To rebuild the Southern economy.

• To address the treatment of former Confederates and integrate freed slaves.

• To expand U.S. territory.

What was one of the main purposes of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To assist freedmen in the South

• To establish new states

• To create new laws

• To build railroads

What did Democrats agree to in the Compromise of 1877?

• Allow Hayes to become President

• Build a new capital

• End slavery

• Start a new war

What did the Enforcement Act aim to protect?

• African-Americans' right to vote, hold office, serve in jury

• Property rights, free land, money

• Environmental laws, banning of hunting bears, banning of chopping trees

• Trade agreements b/w France, Britain, Spain, and Germany

What did the Compromise of 1877 end?

• Reconstruction

• The Civil War

• The Gold Rush

• The Industrial Revolution

What was one of the effects of Jim Crow Laws on schools?

• Schools were integrated

• Schools were segregated

• Schools were closed

• Schools were privatized

What did Jim Crow Laws prevent whites from doing?

• Voting in elections

• Marrying blacks

• Owning property

• Traveling freely