11-12: Reconstruction

Question 1

What did the 13th Amendment say?

Answer 1

‘Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime, shall exist with the USA’

Question 2

When was the 13th Amendment created?

Answer 2

1865

Question 3

What did the 13th Amendment build off the back of?

Answer 3

The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 4

When was the Emancipation Proclamation and who did it apply to?

Answer 4

1863

Only freed slaves in Confederate States to deprive South of economic input

Question 5

Name two pros of the 13th Amendment

Answer 5

• It was immediate in its affect
• Made the abolition of slavery a fundamental part of the legal system

Question 6

Name two cons of the 13th Amendment

Answer 6

• Exempted criminals, meaning black criminality and mass incarceration skyrocketed
• Southern states had ‘black codes’ and later ‘Jim Crow Laws’ that worked around amendment

Question 7

When was the KKK set up

Answer 7

1867

Question 8

What did Charles Sumner say in response to 13th Amendment?

Answer 8

‘Liberty has been won…The battle for equality is still pending’

Question 9

Who said ‘Liberty has been won…The battle for equality is still pending’? What Amendement led him to say this?

Answer 9

Charles Sumner

13th Amendment

Question 10

What did historian, Alexander Tsesis, say about 13th Amendment?

Answer 10

Made the principles of the Declaration of Independence into enforcable law

Question 11

When was the 14th Amendment written?

Answer 11

1868

Question 12

What are the 3 main parts of the 14th Amendment?

Answer 12

• No state can abridge privileges of citizens
• No state can take away life, liberty and property
• Any male under 21 refused vote will lose representatives

Question 13

When was the first Civil Rights Act, and what Amendment backs it?

Answer 13

1866

14th Amendment

Question 14

What did Eric Foner say about 14th Amendment?

Answer 14

14th Amendment sucks the most out of the Reconstruction Amendments because it didn’t really promise anything

Question 15

When was the 15th Amendment introduced?

Answer 15

1870

Question 16

What did the 15th Amendment say?

Answer 16

‘The right of citizens to vote shall not be abridged on the account of race, colour or previous condition of servitude’

Question 17

What is a pro of the 15th Amendment?

Answer 17

Extended the vote to tens of thousands of previously disenfranchised men

Question 18

What is a con of the 15th Amendment? When was this changed?

Answer 18

• You can still be denied votes based off gender, land, education etc.
• Full voting protection didn’t come until 1965

Question 19

What does section 2 at the end of each Amendment say

Answer 19

‘Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation’

Question 20

What are the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments known as collectively?

Answer 20

The Reconstruction Amendments or the Civil Rights Amendments