Reconstruction SOL- USII 3a,b,c

The 13th amendment to the Constitution was the first of the "Reconstruction Amendments," What was the purpose of this amendment?

• to give women the right to vote
• to allow the Confederate States to re-enter the Union
• to give African Americans the right to vote
• to abolish slavery

The primary goal of the Freedman's Bureau was to:  

• prevent the African American population from voting in federal elections.
• establish the "sharecropping" system to make sure that white farmers continued to employ African Americans.
• provide newly freed slaves with food, shelter, work, and education.
• to enforce "Black Codes," or laws that treated African Americans as second-class citizens

Who wanted to readmit states to the Union when 10% of the voters took an oath of allegiance?

• Andrew Johnson
• Andrew Jackson
• Abraham Lincoln
• The Radical Republicans

The organization put in place after the Civil War to provide food, clothing, health care and education in the South was known as:

• The Civil Rights Committee
• The Freedmen's Bureau
• The Welfare Committee
• The Salvation Army

Preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the South 

• Abraham Lincoln
• Robert E. Lee
• Frederick Douglass
• Jefferson Davis

Which of the following officially ended Reconstruction by pulling the military troops out of the South?

• Jim Crow Laws
• Agreement of 1865
• Compromise of 1877
• The 15th Amendment

Was a powerful voice for human rights and civil liberties for all 

• Robert E. Lee
• Frederick Douglass
• Abraham Lincoln
• Jefferson Davis

Reconstruction was a period of ________________ .

• destruction
• rebuilding
• slavery
• war

Urged Southerners to reconcile with Northerners at the end of the war and reunite as Americans when some wanted to continue to fight 

• Abraham Lincoln
• Frederick Douglass
• Rober E. Lee
• General MacArthur

Which Amendment prohibits slavery?

• 15th
• 14th
• 13th
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