Life After Slavery

This reconstruction amendment stated that the right to vote could not be denied by race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This amendment was designed to protect the right to vote of African Americans, yet southern states found ways around it like poll taxes and literacy tests.

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

Secret society that resorted to violence and terror in order to maintain power; they used verbal threats and violence to intimidate African Americans and prevent them from voting.

• al Qaeda

• Radical Republicans

• Carpetbaggers

• Ku Klux Klan

This reconstruction amendment gave equal protection and citizenship rights to everyone born in the United States, even if your parents were slaves.

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

This reconstruction amendment officially abolished slavery; all reconstruction plans required that southern states ratify this amendment in order to rejoin the government.

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

How did life differ in the North for people who had escaped slavery?

• Racism was rare

• There were fewer white people

• African Americans had equal rights

• slavery was illegal

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• slavery

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What was the primary goal of the Freedmen's Bureau established after the Civil War?

• To redistribute land to former slaves

• To provide food, housing, and medical aid to former slaves

• To promote industrialization in the South

• To enforce segregation laws

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery?

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Sixteenth Amendment

What was the significance of the Black Codes enacted in the Southern states after the Civil War?

• They granted African Americans the right to vote

• They restricted the freedom and rights of African Americans

• They provided land grants to former slaves

• They abolished segregation in public places

Who was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate during the Reconstruction era?

• Frederick Douglass

• Hiram Revels

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois