Social Studies 8 FINAL REVIEW

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Fill in the blank: Laws limiting the rights of African Americans, mostly in the South, using loopholes in the law to prevent newfound freedoms like voting rights, were known as _________.

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Jim Crow

Front

Fill in the blank: The act of separating people based upon a certain characteristic is called _________; African Americans were separated from whites in their schools, neighborhoods, bathrooms, restaurants, hotels, etc.

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segregation

Front

Fill in the blank: Southerners who supported the federal government after the Civil War (during Reconstruction) and were seen as traitors to the South were called _________.

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scalawags

Front

Fill in the blank: The group in Congress who believed that the federal government should be more involved in empowering the newly freed African Americans were called _________.

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Radical Republicans

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Fill in the blank: Taxes that people, mostly impoverished/poor African Americans, were forced to pay to Southern communities in order to vote were called _________.

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poll tax

Front

Fill in the blank: Locations where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government after their land was claimed by the government and given to settlers were called _________.

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Indian Reservations

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Fill in the blank: Reading tests that Southern communities gave to mostly African American voters to prevent them from voting, proving they were illiterate or unfit to vote, were called _________.

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literacy tests

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Fill in the blank: Southern states began to pass laws restricting the rights of African Americans, with many of them simply rewriting old slave codes. These laws were called _________.

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Black codes

Front

Fill in the blank: The amendment that abolished/outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime, is the _________.

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13th Amendment

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Fill in the blank: The amendment that ensured that people born or naturalized in the United States were citizens with full rights, including due process, is the _________.

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14th Amendment