Amendments

Question 1

13th amendment

Answer 1

would end slavery , end of slavery was a moral issue for some americans, civil war ensured no truing back, black people were still discriminated

Question 2

14th amendement

Answer 2

struck down black codes and guaranteed all citizens equality before the law
Confirmed that the federal gov could intervene if a state tried to deny citizenship rights to any citizen

Question 3

15th Amendment

Answer 3

Ulysses S. Grant, the right to vote should not be denied on account of race,colour or previous conditions of servitude, did not guarantee men’s right to vote, forbid states from introducing literacy tets for would be voters.

Question 4

Civil Rights Act 1875

Answer 4

aimed to prevent discrimination in public places like railroads not in school.

Question 5

Military Reconstruction Act 1867

Answer 5

divided southern states into five districts governed by previous union generals to be admitted back into the union state must pass the 13th and 14th Amendments and hold new elections.

Question 6

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 6

designed to help freed slaves through the privision of food,clothes,fuel and medical care, also helped white southereners , can be seen as inefficient and corrupt stoped in june 1872.

Question 7

Black Codes

Answer 7

Laws passed by southernern states in 1865-6 to control the freed slaves, impossible for black americans to purchase land and obtain an education , vote etc.

Question 8

Emancipation Proclaim

Answer 8

Slaves in confederate states conquered by union forces in the future would be free