Civil War Recon review 2

Which era accord after the Civil War?

• War of 1812

• American Revolution

• Civil War

• Reconstruction

This amendment stated anyone born in the United States is a citizen with equal rights.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

This amendment gave African American men the right to vote

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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