Exploring the Civil Rights Amendments

What was the primary purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?

• To establish new states in the Union

• To reconstruct the Constitution and ensure civil rights

• To reconstruct the economy after the Civil War

• To expand the territory of the United States

What did the Emancipation Proclamation declare?

• Freedom for any person held as a slave in the rebel states

• The end of the Civil War

• The beginning of the Reconstruction era

• The right to vote for all citizens

When was the 13th Amendment ratified?

• December 1865

• July 1868

• April 1865

• January 1863

What were the Black Codes?

• Laws that allowed blacks to vote

• Laws that granted equal rights to blacks

• Laws that restricted the rights of blacks

• Laws that ended slavery

What did the 14th Amendment ensure?

• The end of the Civil War

• Equal protection of the laws for all citizens

• The abolition of slavery

• The right to vote for all citizens

Which Supreme Court case ruled that the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Baron v. Baltimore

What did the 15th Amendment guarantee?

• Freedom of speech

• The right to peaceably assemble

• The right to bear arms

• The right to vote regardless of race

When was the 15th Amendment ratified?

• July 1868

• April 1865

• February 1870

• February 1869

Who was the President when the 15th Amendment was ratified?

• Andrew Johnson

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

What was Frederick Douglass's reaction to the adoption of the 15th Amendment?

• He believed it was insufficient

• He opposed it

• He was indifferent

• He declared a new era of freedom