4/23 Group B

What did the 13th Amendment accomplish?

• It ended slavery in America.

• It granted African American men suffrage.

• It established the Freedmen's Bureau.

• It required states to give everyone due process.

Which organization helped former slaves with their basic needs and established schools?

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The Black Codes

• The Sharecropping System

• The Southern States

What was the purpose of the Black Codes?

• To put restrictions on freedmen.

• To grant citizenship to freedmen.

• To end slavery in America.

• To establish schools for former slaves.

What did the 15th Amendment grant?

• Suffrage to African American men.

• Citizenship to freedmen.

• The end of slavery.

• Equal protection under the law.

How did Southern states discourage voting among African Americans?

• By using poll taxes and literacy tests.

• By granting suffrage to African American men.

• By establishing the Freedmen's Bureau.

• By ending slavery in America.

Which of the following were impacts of the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment? Select THREE correct answers.

• Former Union officers took over southern state governments.

• Millions of African Americans were permanently freed from slavery.

• Many former slaves became sharecroppers to earn a living.

• President Lincoln was elected to a third term in office.

• Abolitionists had finally achieved their goal.

Radical Republicans’ plans for Reconstruction included which of the following?

• Rebuilding Southern infrastructure only

• Punishing the South and protecting the rights of freedmen

• Returning all land to former Confederates

• Limiting voting rights for African Americans

The sharecropping system negatively impacted freedmen by:

• Providing them with land ownership

• Keeping them in a cycle of debt and poverty

• Granting them economic independence

• Allowing them to accumulate wealth

Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in which governmental body?

• The United States House of Representatives

• The United States Senate

• The Supreme Court

• The Cabinet

The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees what to Americans, and how did it impact freedmen?

• Equal protection under the law and citizenship; it provided freedmen with legal rights and protection.

• The right to vote for all citizens; it allowed freedmen to hold public office.

• Freedom of speech and religion; it gave freedmen the right to own land.