SSUSH10 Mini Assessment

The 15^th amendment was primarily meant to:

• Give African Americans citizenship
• End the institution of slavery
• Allow former slaves the right to vote
• Provide African Americans due process under  the law

The institution of slavery was formally abolished in the United States by the:

• Compromise of 1850
• Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
• Creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1865 
• Ratification of the 13th amendment in 1865 

What role did Congress play in the Presidential Election of 1876?

• They allowed northern votes to be counted twice.
• Congressmen from several states had the Democratic candidate removed from the ballots.
• After indecisive election results, a Congressional committee awarded the Presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes and troops were removed from the South.
• Congress had to swear to an oath not to impeach the new president because of the Republicans’ questionable reasons for impeaching Andrew Johnson. 

After the Civil War, the south was divided into military districts by :

• Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction 
• Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction 
• Radical Republican Plan of Reconstruction 
• Region according to ratification of the Reconstruction amendments 

What was one of the goals of the KKK in the South during Reconstruction?

• To gain support for a second secession of the southern states.
• They wanted to get the 13^th, 14^th and 15^th amendments repealed.
• To help the new Republican governments sustain power in the southern states.
• They worked to keep African Americans and other minority groups from voting through violence.

A program that provided clothing, medical attention, food, education, and even land to African Americans who needed a start coming out of slavery. 

• 13^th Amendment
• Reconstruction Act
• 14^th Amendment
• Freedmen’s Bureau

Presidential Reconstruction included all of the following, except: 

• Southerners who swore allegiance to the Union were pardoned for crimes against the U.S.
• Former Confederate states could hold constitutional conventions to set up state governments 
• States had to void secession and ratify the 13^th amendment which ended slavery in the nation
• Former slave owners were pardoned of all crimes

Laws, limiting the activity of blacks so much that they were still living like they had as slaves, after the Civil War was known as:

• Jim Crow Laws
• Black Codes
• Common Laws
• Segregation 

Which of the following colleges were established for the purpose of African American education during Reconstruction?

• University of Georgia
• Morehouse College
• Georgia Tech
• Morehead State 

The impeachment of President Andrew Johnson was due to

• a struggle between Congress and President over governmental power.
  
• his actions as a "Radical Republican" during the Reconstruction Era.
• his involvement in the Confederate military during the Civil War.
  
• charges that he had lied under oath about Reconstruction laws.