Reconstruction

The 15th Amendment gave African Americans the right to...

• citizenship.
• vote.
• own land.
• hold political office.

The 13th Amendment ended...

• Black Codes.
• discrimination.
• Jim Crow laws.
• slavery.

The 14th Amendment gave African Americans...

• free land.
• citizenship and equal protection of laws.
• the right the vote.
• money.

Frederick Douglass was best known as what?

• Confederate General
• 16th President
• Former slave who worked constantly for rights for African Americans
• Union General

Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction called for...

• punishing the South.
• reconciliation and not punishing the South.
• literacy tests be required for voting.
• Jim Crow laws to be passed.

Black Codes were intended to...

• help African Americans gain land.
• limit the economic and physical freedom of former slaves.
• to remove Federal troops from their region.
• to give African Americans a code to communicate.

A terrorist group that prevented blacks from voting

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedmen Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

What was the purpose of the Military Reconstruction Act

• To outlaw Black Codes

• To oversee and enforce Reconstruction Legislation

• To provide assistance to former slaves after the Civil War

• To allow ex-Confederate officials to hold political office

a farming system that keep blacks poor and uneducated

• poll tax

• sharecropping

• black code

• 14th Amendment

True or False: President Johnson created many laws to help freedmen during Reconstruction

• True

• False