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What did the 13th Amendment do?
Free all enslaved people
To which group did the Emancipation Proclamation apply?
A. European immigrants in northeastern factories
B. African Americans enslaved in rebelling states
C. American Indians relocated to reservations
D. Chinese miners in western territories
B. African Americans enslaved in rebelling states
What is inflation?
Rising prices over time.
What was a poll tax?
A fee required to vote.
What was Military Reconstruction Act?
Divided the South into military districts after the war.
What was the purpose of the 15th amendment
What is Ex Parte Merryman (1861)?
Case about limiting civil rights during war.
What was one effect of the Civil War on the Northern economy?
A. Agricultural production decreased.
B. Factory production increased.
C. Inflation decreased.
D. Unemployment increased.
B. Factory production increased.
What was the ruling of Plessy V. Ferguson?
Supreme Court case that allowed segregation.
What was the Bargain of 1877?
Agreement that ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops from the South.
What is the purpose of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment
To ensure all people are being threated equally under the law
How did the Emancipation Proclamation impact African American troops?
Former enslaved people could join the union army
Select three challenges that civilians faced during the Civil War.
A. Industrial expansion
B. Bread riots
C. Inflation
D. Indentured servitude
E. Draft riots
F. Immigration
G. Labor strikes
B. Bread riots
C. Inflation
E. Draft riots
Describe 2 services of the Freedmens Bureau.
-Set up schools
-hospitals
-provide land
- help finding jobs
Read the excerpt.
All railroads carrying passengers in the state (other than street railroads) shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger cars for each passenger train, or by dividing the cars by a partition, so as to secure separate accommodations.
—Tennessee law, 1891
In which chapter of a U.S. History textbook would a student expect to find this type of law discussed?
A. The Industrial Revolution
B. The Era of Social Reform Movements
C. Causes of the Civil War
D. Reconstruction and Jim Crow
D. Reconstruction and Jim Crow
Read the excerpt.
[A school] I visited . . . wholly taught by educated colored men, would bear comparison with any ordinary school at the north. Not only good reading and spelling were heard, but lessons at the black-board in arithmetic, recitations in geography and English grammar. Very creditable specimens [examples] of writing were shown, and all the older classes could read or recite as fluently in French as in English. This was a free school, wholly supported by the colored people of the city . . . This educational movement among the freedmen has in it a self-sustaining element . . . This is a wonderful state of things. —Freedmen's Bureau Report
During what time period was this report most likely written?
A. Founding of the nation (1770s)
B. Early development (1800 – 1830)
C. Pre-Civil War (1850 – 1860s)
D. Reconstruction (1865 – 1877)
D. Reconstruction (1865 – 1877)
Which statement about the Supreme Court decision in Ex Parte Merryman (1861) is correct?
A. The President’s power to suspend habeas corpus was challenged.
B. The President’s power to pardon criminals was declared unconstitutional.
C. The Supreme Court clarified the meaning of judicial review.
D. The Supreme Court defined the necessary and proper clause.
A. The President’s power to suspend habeas corpus was challenged.
How was westward expansion a cause of the Civil War?
Conflicts over expansion of slavery
During Reconstruction, what allowed poor white citizens to avoid voting restrictions?
A. convict labor lease system
B. grandfather clause
C. citizenship test
D. literacy test
B. grandfather clause
Study the newspaper headlines.
Select two headlines that correctly describe parts of the congressional plan for Reconstruction.
A. Provisional Governors Provided Control of Each State in the South
B. Rebellious States Divided into Five Military Districts
C. Amnesty and Lenient Pardons Provided for Southern Leaders
D. States Must Ratify the 14th Amendment to Rejoin the Union
E. Freedman’s Bureau Removed from Southern States
B. Rebellious States Divided into Five Military Districts
D. States Must Ratify the 14th Amendment to Rejoin the Union
After freedom . . . we couldn't make nothing, just overalls and something to eat. Half [your crop] went to the [farm owner]. . . . A man that didn't know how to count would always lose . . . . No matter how good account you kept, you had to go by their account . . . . If you didn't make no money . . . they would advance [give] you more. But . . . you better not try to leave and get caught. They'd keep you in debt.
Henry Blake, former enslaved African American, oral interview, 1936 to 1938
Identify the system described in this excerpt.
Explain how the system denied economic freedoms to African Americans after the Civil War.
Sharecropping
Can't leave, barely made money
Answer the following question in a short answer response
- Which region of the U.S. was impacted by the Emancipation Proclamation?
- Why was only this region impacted
Southern states in rebellion
Because they did not want to free enslaved people in border states and make them mad/ rebel
Read the excerpt.
[The South with] the finest soil, the most delightful climate, whose staple productions none of those [European] countries can grow . . . But the strength of a nation depends in a great measure upon its wealth, and the wealth of a nation, like that of a man, is to be estimated by its surplus production . . . If I am right in my calculations . . . there is not a nation on the face of the earth . . . that can compete with us in produce per capita [how much is made per person].
—South Carolina Senator James Hammond, 1858
What Confederate strategy is reflected in this excerpt?
A. Anaconda Plan
B. Congressional Reconstruction
C. Great Compromise
D. King Cotton Diplomacy
D. King Cotton Diplomacy
Study the newspaper headlines.
Select two headlines that show the impact of the church on the lives of African Americans during Reconstruction.
A. Lack of Schools for African Americans
B. Equal Rights Amendment Benefits African Americans
C. Literacy Rate Increases for African Americans
D. African Americans unable to Receive Legal Aid
E. African Americans Vote in Recent Election
C. Literacy Rate Increases for African Americans
E. African Americans Vote in Recent Election
Select two goals that were part of the Radical Republicans' plan during Reconstruction.
A. ratify the 13th Amendment
B. enforce Reconstruction through military rule
C. return land to pre-Civil War owners
D. pardon most white Southerners
E. grant African American males the right to vote
B. enforce Reconstruction through military rule
E. grant African American males the right to vote