Reconstruction

This amendment abolished slavery

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

This amendment stated anyone born in the United States is a citizen with equal rights.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

This amendment gave African American men the right to vote

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...

• establish churches to provide aid in the Southern states.

• reunify the former Confederate States and to craft a plan to readmit them to the Union.

• establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.

• abolish former Confederate governments and to punish former Confederate leaders.

Which of the following were challenges experienced by African Americans following the Civil War? (SELECT ALL THAT ARE CORRECT)

• Racial terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan

• Lack of a formal education or employment opportunities

• Limitations of 13th Amendment freedoms through Black Codes

• Enjoyment of civil rights and the ability to participate in the government through voting

Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?

• African American families divided by slavery were reunited

• Newly free men and women moved west to claim land

• African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election

• Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship

What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

• Agricultural workers organized labor unions

• Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt

• Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses

• Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves

The abolitionist movement achieved its goal with the passage of which amendment?

• Twelfth Amendment

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by -

• Providing them with voting rights

• Guaranteeing their freedom of speech

• Providing them with access to the court system

• Guaranteeing their permanent freedom from slavery

"Black Codes was a name given to laws passed by southern governments established during the presidency of Andrew Johnson. These laws imposed severe restrictions on freedmen, such as prohibiting the right to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, and limiting their right to testify against white men. They were also forbidden from carrying weapons and working in certain occupations."

Southern states passed the codes described in this excerpt in order to -

• limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments

• Increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North

• decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress

• improve relations with the Democratic Party