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- 1. Multiple Choice
This amendment abolished slavery
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
- 2. Multiple Choice
This amendment stated anyone born in the United States is a citizen with equal rights.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
- 3. Multiple Choice
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
- 4. Multiple Choice
This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...
establish churches to provide aid in the Southern states.
reunify the former Confederate States and to craft a plan to readmit them to the Union.
establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.
abolish former Confederate governments and to punish former Confederate leaders.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following were challenges experienced by African Americans following the Civil War? (SELECT ALL THAT ARE CORRECT)
Racial terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan
Lack of a formal education or employment opportunities
Limitations of 13th Amendment freedoms through Black Codes
Enjoyment of civil rights and the ability to participate in the government through voting
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?
African American families divided by slavery were reunited
Newly free men and women moved west to claim land
African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election
Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship
- 7. Multiple Choice
After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to -
punish plantation owners for the use of slavery
support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South
promote the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau
limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment
- 8. Multiple Choice
The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to -
Establish legal requirements for the education of former slaves
Mandate fair labor contracts between African American workers and plantation owners
Abolish the institution of slavery
Protect the voting rights of African American men
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?
The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act
The positions taken int he Know-Nothing Party Platform
The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War
The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation
- 10. Multiple Choice
What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?
Agricultural workers organized labor unions
Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt
Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses
Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves
- 11. Multiple Choice
The abolitionist movement achieved its goal with the passage of which amendment?
Twelfth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
- 12. Multiple Choice
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by -
Providing them with voting rights
Guaranteeing their freedom of speech
Providing them with access to the court system
Guaranteeing their permanent freedom from slavery
- 13. Multiple Choice
This painting of a Missouri election was completed in 1852. Such scenes would look dramatically different after the -
Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment
Second Great Awakening
Emergence of Manifest Destiny
Expansion of the Factory System
- 14. Multiple Choice
The election of Hiram Rhodes Revels in 1870 was significant because he was the first African American to -
win an election as a member of the Democratic Party
win a majority of the popular vote in Mississippi
serve as a member of the U.S. Senate
run for public office in the South
- 15. Multiple Choice
"Black Codes was a name given to laws passed by southern governments established during the presidency of Andrew Johnson. These laws imposed severe restrictions on freedmen, such as prohibiting the right to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, and limiting their right to testify against white men. They were also forbidden from carrying weapons and working in certain occupations."
Southern states passed the codes described in this excerpt in order to -
limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments
Increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North
decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress
improve relations with the Democratic Party
- 16. Multiple Choice
Which of these describes a result of the Thirteenth Amendment?
African Americans in the north could vote
State governments were required to protect individual rights
Former Confederate officials were prohibited from holding elected office
African Americans in the South could freely move elsewhere
- 17. Multiple Choice
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
Grandfather Clauses
The measures in this list are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the -
Compromise of 1850
Fifteenth Amendment
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Dred Scott v. Sandford decision
- 18. Multiple Choice
Freedmen's Bureau:
- Provided food, shelter, and clothing
- Negotiated and enforced labor contracts
- ___________________
Which of the following best completes this list?
Established schools for African Americans
Certified applications for political office
Granted small-business loans
Provided funds for farming supplies
- 19. Multiple Choice
How did the Freedmen's Bureau most assist in the reconstruction of the South?
By dividing large plantations and redistributing the property to former slaves
By creating a militia to help enforce the voting rights of former slaves
By offering legal assistance and public schooling to former slaves
By petitioning the government to offer money to former slaves
- 20. Multiple Choice
This political cartoon comments on events that occurred during the -
Reconstruction Era
Age of Jackson
Second Great Awakening
Civil War
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