Impact of Reconstruction Answers

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Which amendment to the Constitution prevented states from denying men the right to vote on the basis of race?

Thirteenth Amendment

Fourteenth Amendment

Fifteenth Amendment

Buffalo soldiers were:

Southern soldiers who supported Reconstruction.

Northerners who served as troops to protect state constitutional conventions.

African American soldiers recruited after the Civil War to serve in the West.

The outbreak of violence in Memphis in 1866 and the creation of the KKK were both designed to

intimidate African Americans and their supporters.

support Reconstruction policies.

ensure African American rights were protected.

The first African American to serve in Congress was

Ebenezer D. Bassett.

Francis Cardozo.

Blanche Bruce.

Hiram Revels.

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