7th Grade Unit 6 Review

What legislation opened the door for the KKK and domestic terrorism to be used against Black citizens?

• Compromise of 1877

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Southern States Compromise

The effect of the 15th Amendment was that it:

• gave the vote to all African Americans.

• gave the vote to all male citizens, regardless of race.

• gave the vote to all citizens regardless of race or gender.

Required that 10% of a Southern state's population swear an oath to the U.S. before that state could be re-admitted to the Union.

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Congressional Reconstruction Plan

"And be it further enacted, That the commissioner, under the direction of the President, shall have authority to set apart, for the use of loyal refugees and freedmen, such tracts of land within the insurrectionary states as shall have been abandoned, or to which the United States shall have acquired title by confiscation or sale, or otherwise, and to every male citizen, whether refugee or freedman…"

According to this quote, what did the Freedman's Bureau have the power to do?

• The Freedman's Bureau had the authority to grant citizenship to all former slaves.
• The Freedman's Bureau had the power to redistribute land in the South to freedmen.

• The Freedman's Bureau could only provide food and shelter to refugees.
• The Freedman's Bureau was responsible for enforcing laws in the insurrectionary states.

What was the effect of the 13th Amendment?

• It put in place civil rights laws for African Americans.

• It made African Americans citizens.

• It freed all enslaved persons.

• It gave all male citizens the right to vote.

Who were freedmen?

• escaped prisoners

• discharged soldiers

• former slaves

• carpetbaggers

Established to help freed slaves with jobs, education, and voting

• Redeemers
• Civil rights commission
• Freedmen's Bureau
• White League

The effect of the 14th Amendment was that it:

• freed all enslaved people.

• imposed fines on the South for oppressing former enslaved people.

• gave males the right to vote regardless of race.

• made African Americans citizens.

What was the main effect of the Compromise of 1877?

• It allowed people in Kansas to decide the issue of slavery in their state.

• It allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as free.

• It ended Reconstruction.

• It banned slavery north of the "36, 30" line.

Northerners who went South and took advantage of the unstable political environment were the:

• scoundrels.

• scalawags.

• Southern Simps.

• carpetbaggers.