This reconstruction amendment stated that the right to vote could not be denied by race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This amendment was designed to protect the right to vote of African Americans, yet southern states found ways around it like poll taxes and literacy tests.
Life After Slavery

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John Robinson
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
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Secret society that resorted to violence and terror in order to maintain power; they used verbal threats and violence to intimidate African Americans and prevent them from voting.
al Qaeda
Radical Republicans
Carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan
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This reconstruction amendment gave equal protection and citizenship rights to everyone born in the United States, even if your parents were slaves.
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
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This reconstruction amendment officially abolished slavery; all reconstruction plans required that southern states ratify this amendment in order to rejoin the government.
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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How did life differ in the North for people who had escaped slavery?
Racism was rare
There were fewer white people
African Americans had equal rights
slavery was illegal
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one person owning another person
silt
slavery
sphinx
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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What was the primary goal of the Freedmen's Bureau established after the Civil War?
To redistribute land to former slaves
To provide food, housing, and medical aid to former slaves
To promote industrialization in the South
To enforce segregation laws
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