US History MidTerm

Restrictions on African Americans in the south (education, voting, jobs).

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

 

 Removed most of the penalties imposed on former Confederates by the Fourteenth Amendment.

 

• Wade-Davis Bill

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  Amnesty Act of 1872

   

   

   

   

   

   

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  Freedmen's Bureau

   

   

   

• Tenure of Office Acts

If a sharecropper or tenant farmer owed any money at all to the landlord for cash loans or the use of tools, he or she could not leave until the debt was paid.

• Sharecropping

• Tenant Farmers

• Peonage

Which amendment guaranteed the "equal protection" of the laws to all American citizens?

• 15th

• 13th

• 12th

• 14th

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. - The 15th Amendment

Which practices were introduced in Southern states after Reconstruction to circumvent this amendment?

• African-American freedmen increased their participation in government in the nation's first experiment in biracial democracy.

• White and black children in Southern states were required to attend separate, racially segregated public schools, and to use separate playgrounds.

• "Jim Crow" laws imposed racial segregation in public places, including trains, restaurants, and hotels.

• Poll taxes, literacy tests, and residency requirements were passed, which affected African Americans more than other citizens.

Which two groups most helped the freedmen during the Reconstruction Era?

• Confederate veterans and supporters of President Andrew Johnson

• Southern Democrats and supporters of the Black Code

• Radical Republicans and carpetbaggers

• Northern Democrats and Ku Klux Klan members

What was the significance of the Battle of Vicksburg during the Civil War?

• General Lee’s army trapped Union forces, leading to a major Confederate victory.

• The battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River, diving the Confederacy in two.

• General McClellan was promoted to General-in-Chief of the Union armies

• The Confederacy proved that it could delay any Union advance into the South

Which title best completes the diagram?

• Causes of the Civil War

• Key Events of the Civil War

• Individual Rights during the Civil War

• The Nullification Crisis

Which group was most negatively impacted by the policy reflected in this poster?

 

• African American Sharecroppers

• White Farmers

• Recent Chinese Immigrants

• Native Americans

Which factor contributed to the shift in population shown on the graph?

 

• Houses in cities were less expensive than those in the countryside.

• The Great Plains Indians left their reservations to buy new farmland.

   

   

• New jobs in industry attracted farmers and farm laborers to cities.

• Not enough families took advantage of the Homestead Act