Reconstruction and the Amendments: Vocabulary Check

The 13th, 14th, and 15th constitutional amendments adopted during Reconstruction were intended to-

• End property and religious qualifications for voting

• Correct problems with the electoral college system

• Provide legal and political rights for African Americans

• Limit the number of terms of the president

Which amendment gave citizenship to all former slaves?

• 14th

• 7th

• 13th

• 9th

Which amendment made slavery illegal?

• 16th

• 14th

• 15th

• 13th

The 14th and 15th Amendments, passed during Reconstruction, resulted in-

• Increased individual rights for African Americans

• Expanded rights for Native American Indians on reservations

• Additional rights for Southern segregationists

• Equal rights for women in the United States

The 13th amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation were similar in that they both-

• Expanded civil rights for all Americans

• Were measures to end slavery

• Were supported by the majority of northern and southern states

• Were measures to end the Civil War

Which of the following was part of the Jim Crow Laws?

• African Americans can vote no matter what

• African Americans can be in the same places as white people

• African Americans must ride the same buses as white people

• African Americans must pay to vote

Why did sharecropping develop after the Civil War?

• It was the most efficient form of agricultural production

• It was the best way for formerly enslaved African Americans to rise in the world

• Many small farmers didn’t have money for land, tools, and seeds

• The victorious northern states began the practice

Which of the following is the best definition for Reconstruction?

•  A time when factories were rebuilt after the Civil War

• A time of rebuilding in the South after the Civil War

• A time of rebuilding in the North after the Civil War

• A time when Washington D.C. was rebuilt after the Civil War

One goal of post-Civil War Congressional Reconstruction was to-

• Ensure civil rights of former slaves

• Preserve the plantation system

• Repay Confederate war debts

• Rebuild the Southern naval system

The practice of sharecropping mostly benefited-

• Freed black workers

• White landowners

• Poor white laborers

• Young black men