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What was the overall purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments? (5-1.2)
a) To protect the rights of African Americans
b) To protect the rights of southern elite
c) To take away rights of southern elite
d) To take away rights of African Americans

Why was the Freedmen's Bureau so important to the South during Reconstruction? (5-1.2)
a) It helped all people in need in the South
b) It enforced Jim Crow Laws
c) It wanted to continue slavery
d) It threatened newly freed slaves and poor whites

Which of the following was an effect of the Reconstruction amendments?
a) All African Americans had the right to vote.
b) African American men had the right to vote.
c) African Americans could lobby Congress to vote.
d) African Americans were not allowed to vote.

Which of the following best describes the sharecropping system?
a) fair system for the plantation owner and the sharecropper.
b) a system that gave freedmen ownership of land.
c) better for the plantation owner than for the sharecropper.
d) system that helped the Northern and Southern economy.

Which amendment recognized African-American citizenship and offered equal protection under law?
a) The Bill of Rights
b) The 13th Amendment
c) The 14th Amendment
d) The 15th Amendment

How did Thirteen, Fourteen and Fifteen Amendments protect the rights of African Americans?
a) Northern states had to follow otherwise could be arrested.
b) Southern states had to follow otherwise could be arrested.
c) African Americans had rights, by law, across the whole US.
d) African Americans were offered the same chance as whites.

What are some ways the Freedman's Bureau helped freedmen?
a) They mowed their lawns and washed their cars for them.
b) They build factories for former slaves to work in.
c) They build hospitals and schools for blacks and poor whites.
d) They hired lawyers to sue plantation owners.

Why were the 3 amendments designed?
a) to end slavery and protect the rights of newly freed slaves
b) to stop the fighting between north and south
c) to help white southerns
d) give control to all African Americans

What is sharecropping?
a) agreement between landowners and African Americans over land
b) African Americans became slaves again for white plantation
c) traded labor for ownership of land
d) African Americans worked on lands for free

Under Black Codes, African Americans could NOT do things such as
a) have children
b) own land
c) live in the South
d) move to a different country

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