3.1 The Reconstruction Amendments: Practice Questions

• a.To establish a separate judicial system exclusively for the prosecution of former Confederate leaders.
• b.To provide immediate cash reparations to all families who had been enslaved.
• c.To organize a mass migration of African Americans to Liberia and other parts of Africa.
• d.To provide food, medical care, and education to formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South.

• a.It abolished slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States, except as punishment for a crime.
• b.It prohibited the denial of suffrage based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude, but did not explicitly prohibit literacy tests or poll taxes.
• c.It effectively ended all forms of racial discrimination in public accommodations and transportation across the South.
• d.It granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteed equal protection under the law.

• a.Affirming that the Bill of Rights applied to state governments through the Fourteenth Amendment.
• b.Declaring that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was constitutional.
• c.Striking down the use of state-mandated segregation in public transportation.
• d.Legalizing the "separate but equal" doctrine, which facilitated the expansion of Jim Crow laws.

• a.It guaranteed the right to vote for all African American men.
• b.It established the Freedmen's Bureau to distribute land to former slaves.
• c.It overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.
• d.It constitutionally ended the institution of chattel slavery across the entire United States.

• a.Executive Order 8802
• b.The Reconstruction Act of 1867
• c.Special Field Orders, No. 15
• d.The Confiscation Act of 1862

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