Questions 9-17: Use the word bank to complete the following statements regarding

Reconstruction:

-Freedmen's Bureau

-13th Amendment:

-Conventions topics:

-14th Amendment:

-Reconstruction Act of March 1867:

-Military Reconstruction Act of 1868

-Carpetbaggers:

-15th Amendment:

-Enforcement Act:

9. The _____ states, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the

jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the states in which they reside." This gives all

Americans equal protection under the law and denies states the ability to discriminate.

10. _____ were Northerners who came to the South after the Civil War and were elected as politicians.

11. The ______ divided the South into five districts and placed them under military rule. Escape from

permanent military government was open to those states that established civil governments, took an oath of

allegiance, ratified the 14th Amendment and adopted black suffrage.

12. The ______ helped African Americans adjust to being free in the South and attempted to protect

them from discrimination by Southern legislatures.

13. The _____ stated that, "The rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or

abridged by the United States or any state on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude."

14. The _______readmitted Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and

Florida, to the Union in 1808.

15. ______called for the former Confederate states to repeal the ordinances of secession, repudiate

the war debt, and draft new state constitutions.

16. The ____severely punishing those who attempted to deprive the black freedmen of their civil rights.

17. The _____ abolished slavery.