DIRECTIONS: On the line provided before each statement, Write True if a statement is true and False if a statement is false. If the statement is false, write the correct term on the line after each sentence that makes the sentence a true statement. For Example,
John Brown assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at the Ford Theater
False, John Wilkes Booth
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans._____
The Fifteenth Amendment gave all African Americans men throughout the United States the right to vote. ____
The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 were laws that restricted the overall freedom of African Americans._____
Thaddeus Stevens was a leader of the Radical Republicans who wanted economic justice for both African Americans and poor white southerners. ____
The Black Codes were laws that divided the South into five districts with a military commander controlling each district.____
The Radical Republicans wanted the South to change much more than it already had before returning o the Union. They also felt that the Black Codes were cruel and unjust.____
The Fourteenth Amendment ensured citizenship for African Americans._____