WorksheetsReconstruction Amendments
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 13mins
What was the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
to create equality for all Americans
to ensure equal distribution of power between National and State government.
to limit the power of the federal government
to give all people the right to vote
Which Amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
13th
14th
15th
3rd
Which Amendment gave male citizens of all races the right to vote?
13th
14th
15th
This ammendment gave citenship and civil rights to anyone born in the United States?
13th
14th
15th
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to
their jurisdiction (authority). These words can be found in..
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All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States
and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce
any law which shall abridge (limit) the privileges or immunities (rights)
of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any
person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor
deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not
be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on
account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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Bernie lives in the South after the Civil War. As he is trying to leave the plantation where he used to be a slave, his plantation owner Billy Bob stops him and says, “I paid for you, you are my slave, you must stay!”
Which amendment is being broken?
12th
13th
14th
15th
An old man named Larry wobbles up to the voting booth. Betty, the person that works at the voting place says, “Go away old man, you can’t vote here!”
Which amendment is Betty breaking?
12th
13th
14th
15th
It is 1865, and the Sheriff in a small town arrests Steve, a former slave, for stealing food from the market. The Sheriff throws him jail and never gives him a trial.
Which amendment is being broken?
12th
13th
14th
15th
What is the difference between the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment?
The 13th Amendment protects the rights of slave owners while the Emancipation Proclamation protects the rights of the slaves.
Both documents make slavery illegal within the United States, but the Emancipation proclamation was created during the Civil War while the 13th Amendment was created after the w
The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation was the only way the states that seceded from the Union would be readmitted into the United States.
The Emancipation Proclamation only frees the slaves belonging to the Confederate States while the 13th Amendment made the institution of slavery illegal within the United States
