NCFE Practice Test American History II

This amendment abolished slavery. 

• 12th 
• 13th 
• 14th
• 15th

This amendment says all male citizens can now vote.

• 13th
• 15th
• 19th
• 23rd

This group helped newly freed slaves with food, medical care, jobs, housing and schooling. 

• Sharecropping
• Jim Crow Laws
• Reconstruction
• Freedmen's Bureau 

Segregation  means .......

• separation based on race
• separation based on gender
• coming together 
• get rid of

Which of the following marked the end of Reconstruction in 1877?

• development of the sharecropping systems
• withdrawal of federal troops in the South
• election of a Democratic President
• Success of the Freedman's Bureau

During Reconstruction, which of the following did the Southern states enact in order to restrict the rights of the freedmen?

• Slave Codes
• Civil Rights Laws
• Freedman's Bureau Bill
• Black Codes

During Reconstruction, which organization oversaw labor contracts, set up schools and helped freed slaves and poor whites find jobs?

• Freedman's Bureau
• Republican Party
• Ku Klux Klan
• United States Army

Which law made all people born in the U.S. citizens?

• The 13th Amendment
• The 14th Amendment
• The 15th Amendment
• Jim Crow Laws

Which of the following is the idea that it is the United States future to expand?

• Checks and Balances
• Separation of Powers
• Manifest Destiny
• Supreme Court

Why did president Kennedy focus US resources on going to the moon.

• To gain British allies in the race against the Soviets.
• To sieze the oppourtunity to land on the moon because the USSR was in decline.
• Wanted to win the race to the moon in the aftermath of the Soviets victory with Sputnik.
• Us wanted to colonize the moon to establish a moon base.