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WorksheetsSS.7.C.3.7
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
The Reconstruction/Civil War Amendments are numbers 13, 14, and 15. Why did our country need to rebuild after the Civil War?
We wanted to create a new country.
There weren't enough jobs for everyone.
We needed to create a new government.
We needed to figure out what would happen to the newly freed slaves.
This amendment included the citizenship clause, due process clause, and equal protection clause.
13th
14th
15th
9th
The Reconstruction/Civil War Amendments helped to promote equality in the black community. However, there were some factors that still limited their rights. What were they?
Slavery was abolished
The Emancipation Proclamation
The North winning the Civil War
Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, and literacy tests
Throughout our history why have amendments been added to the Constitution?
To take freedoms away from citizens
They've only been added as a last resort when nothing else has worked
To try to help fix a problem/make a positive change
We haven't added any amendments to the Constitution
When Thoreau said, "that government is best which governs least," he was in favor of. . .
big government, less choice for the people
little government, more choice by the people
foreign governments making decisions
The Civil Rights Movement is mostly characterized by-
non-violent civil disobedience
violence and riots
economic prosperity
political corruption
Voting in elections is the civic action that shows the most fundamental responsibility of citizens in a-
communism
democracy
dictatorship
theocracy
Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.
13th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1964
Separation of two or more races based on skin color
segregation
racism
oppression
facism
"States are prohibited from imposing any voting qualifications or prerequisite to voting or to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color" - Which of the following is being described in the document?
Armed Forces Desegregation Act
the Civil Rights Act of 1964
the Voting Rights Act of 1965
G.I. Bill
