Reconstruction Era

What was the main goal of the Reconstruction Era?

• Rebuilding the US after the Civil War

• Rebuilding cities after an earthquake.

• Hurting the feelings of people who disagreed

• Constructing new ways of working

What amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

• The 15th Amendment

• The 14th Amendment

• The 13th Amendment

• The 12th Amendment

Which of the following amendments recognized African Americans citizenship and offered equal protection under the law?

• The 13th Amendment

• The 14th Amendment

• The 15th Amendment

• The Bill of Rights

How did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments protect the rights of African Americans?

• Northern states had to follow these three amendments otherwise they could be arrested.

• Southern states had to follow these three amendments or otherwise they could be arrested.

• The Constitution now gave white Americans new rights.

• The Constitution now stated that African Americans had to be offered the same opportunities as whites.

Which workers in the South rented farms and paid rent with cash or crops?

• Tenant farmers

• Plantation owners

• Slaves

• Sharecroppers

Why did poor white people and freed African Americans get involved with sharecropping?

• They enjoyed farming.

• They wanted to become wealthy.

• They had little money to buy or rent land.

• They could have returned to plantations that needed workers.

He/They wanted to make it easy for the southern states to rejoin the Union.

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

• Radical Republicans

Which Amendment gave African Americans the Right to Vote?

• 13th
• 14th
• 16th
• 15th

What name was given to men and women who had been slaves?

• carpetbaggers
• sharecroppers
• Readical Republicans
• freedmen

Which amendment outlawed slavery?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 22nd