Reconstruction Era Quiz

How is the 13th amendment different from the Emancipation Proclamation?

• The 13th amendment freed the slaves in the north only.

• The 13th amendment made slavery illegal everywhere in the United States.

• The 13th amendment was a temporary solution to this issue during the Civil War.

• The 13th amendment helped the economies in the North and South after the war.

Why did the 14th Amendment make it illegal for states to limit the rights of Americans?

• The U.S. Constitution replaced the state constitutions.

• The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the states to follow federal laws.

• Former slave states wanted to pass laws to limit the rights of former slaves.

• Southern states needed protection from unfair laws passed in northern states.

Why couldn't black men vote when the 15th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was passed?

• Only white, male landowners could vote.

• All Americans could already vote.

• Black women didn’t need to vote.

• Only white women were allowed to vote.

Why were the Jim Crow Laws created?

• to limit the rights that were given to the women of the suffrage movement

• to limit the rights that were given to the newly freed slaves

• to increase the rights of white people

• to increase the rights of black people

What movement allowed women to vote?

• Civil Rights Movement

• Westward Expansion Movement

• Daughters of Liberty Movement

• Women's Suffrage movement

In what time period were Jim Crow laws written?

• Reconstruction

• Colonial

• American Revolution

• Westward Expansion

Why was the 13th Amendment necessary to end slavery in the United States?

• The south's economy no longer relied on slave labor

• The states couldn't agree on the new amendment.

• The Founding Fathers didn't want slavery to be legal in the United States.

• The states couldn't agree on whether the original U.S. Constitution permitted slavery.