USHC Unit 3 Section 2 #2 - Wilson HS

What does it mean to charge a public official with a wrongdoing?

• Impeach

• Filibuster

• Censure

• Recall

Andrew Johnson was impeached for impeding Congressional Reconstruction and violating the Tenure in Office Act.

• True

• False

During Reconstruction, African Americans politically prospered with the power to vote and hold political offices.

• True

• False

What group of African Americans migrated westward after the Civil War, often to locations like Kansas, to seek a new life away from the South?

• Mormons

• Okies

• Exodusters

• Boomers and Sooners

What officially ended slavery in the United States?

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Freeport Doctrine

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

What was the system of farming in which a farmer tends some portion of a landowner's land and receives a share of the crop at harvest time as payment?

• Tenant Farming

• Sharecropping

• Putting Out System

• Vertical Consolidation

What is the negative term used to describe a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War, thought to be taking advantage of the poor economic conditions of the South?

• Scalawag

• Robber Baron

• Carpetbagger

• Pirates of the Prairie

What is the negative term used to describe a white Southern Republican, believed to be traitor to the South and what it stands for?

• Scalawag

• Robber Baron

• Carpetbagger

• Stormtroopers

What Constitutional amendment established the "equal protection" of all citizens under the law in the United States?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

What was the goal of Reconstruction?

• Rebuild the South following the Civil War

• Rebuild the North following the Civil War

• Restoring Native American lands after the Civil War

• Restoring the former Confederate states back into the Union