Unit 8: Reconstruction Vocab Review

What was the purpose of the 13th Amendment?

• To give African Americans the right to vote

• To end slavery in the United States

• To give women the right to vote

• To establish new Southern governments

The 14th Amendment granted which of the following rights?

• The right to own land

• Citizenship to African Americans/people born in the US

• The right to vote for all citizens

• The ability to run for president

Which group of people gained the right to vote with the 15th Amendment?

• Women

• White men

• African American men

• Immigrants

What were Black Codes?

• Laws that helped freedmen gain land

• Laws that took away rights from freedmen in the South

• A system for African Americans to vote

• A military strategy used in the South

What was the goal of Congressional Reconstruction?

• To allow the South to govern itself without interference

• To help Southern states rejoin the United States

• To expand slavery into the Western territories

• To remove Union troops from the South

During Military Reconstruction, how was the South divided?

• Into five military districts

• Into two separate countries

• Into new states

• Into free and slave states

To ratify a law means to:

• Reject it

• Approve or pass it

• Change it

• Ignore it

What does it mean to repeal a law?

• To pass it

• To cancel or take it away

• To rewrite it

• To enforce it

What was the main purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• To provide support, education, and resources to freedmen

• To return freedmen to slavery

• To help Confederate leaders regain power

• To move freedmen to Northern states

Which group used fear and violence to limit the rights of freedmen and their supporters?

• The Freedmen’s Bureau

• The Ku Klux Klan

• Black Legislators

• Union Army