U.S. History Quiz

What was the major civil rights effect of the Thirteenth Amendment?

• abolishing slavery in the United States

• outlawing voter discrimination practices

• opening immigration to Asia

• eliminating debt peonage in the South

Which of the following was denied to African Americans under slavery?

• marriage

• education

• property rights

• all of the above

What became a widespread agricultural practice in the Reconstruction? 

• land redistribution

•  industrial farms

• tenant farming

•  plantations

What was a result of the practice of sharecropping for many poor farmers?

•  economic independence

• carpetbagging

• growing profits

• debt peonage

What were Jim Crow laws intended to establish?

•  punishments for terror groups

•  protection for African American voters

• segregation in public places

• land redistribution to freed people

Which of the following was the largest group of voters in the South during Reconstruction? 

• freedmen

• poor farmers

• carpetbaggers

• former Confederates