Reconstruction

The 14th Amendment was to define citizenship and to protect the rights gained by

African Americans.

Which of the following BEST describes how the Freedmen's Bureau?

It provided shelter, food, schools, and legal protection to former slaves.

Jim Crow Laws

Laws in the south that kept things "separate but equal."

The time after the Civil War was called

Reconstruction.

Which of the following BEST describes sharecropping?

These people had to give farm owners part of their crop for using the land.

In 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment

abolished slavery.

Describe how the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

expanded the civil rights of African-Americans after the Civil War.

What was the biggest problem facing the United States at the end of the Civil War?

rebuilding the South and bringing it back into the Union