Midterm Day 1 Review

Lincoln and Johnson's plan for Reconstruction was similar because

• they both wanted to bring the South back quickly

• they wanted to punish the South

• they wanted to turn the south into military districts

• they refused to pass the 13th amendment

What did the Reconstruction Acts do?

• Gave all men the right to vote

• Gave African Americans equaltiy

• Broke up the South into 5 Military Districts

• Made segregation legal

The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments

• ended sharecropping

• legalized Jim Crow Laws

• broke up the south into 5 military districts

• gave rights to African Americans

Although the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were passed many African Americans still felt discrimination due to

• ended sharecropping

• legalized Jim Crow Laws

• broke up the south into 5 military districts

• gave rights to African Americans

Jim Crow Laws

• were strict southern laws that segregated the south

• ended slavery

• gave all men voting rights

• made segregation illegal

Which of the following caused many former slaves to be stuck in a cycle of poverty

• Sharecropping

• Industrialization

• Reconstruction

• the 14th amendement

Northerners who went south for financial gain during Reconstruction

• Carpetbaggers

• Jim Crow

• Scalawags

• Robber Barrons

The idea that we have the right to spread out from coast to coast

• Monopolies

• Manifest Destiny

• Free Enterprise System

• The Homestead Act

Which of these increased settlement in the West, choose 2

• The Homestead Act

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• Segregation

• Trusts & Monopolies

How did the government encourage railroad companies to build?

• increased the quota system

• gave out bonds

• gave out federal land

• restricted monopolies