Social Studies End of Year Review #1

___ was the rebuilding and healing of the country after the Civil War.

• Reconstruction

• Amendments

• Build a Country

The ____ Amendment abolished slavery in 1865.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

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The ___ amendment, ratified in 1868, gave African Americans citizenship and said no state could deny the equal protection of the law to citizens.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• Answer not here

The ___ amendment gave all male citizens, including African Americans the right to vote.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• Answer not here

The ___ was created to help 4 million freedmen, or former slaves, after the war. It built hospitals and schools for blacks in the South.

• Schooling Ratification

• Reconstruction Codes

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Answer not here

Under Johnson's plan, Southern states were free to pass the ______ which were laws that denied African Americans certain rights such as owning land and taking certain jobs.

• Black Laws

• Black Codes

• African Laws

• Grandfather Clause

Laws that enforced segregation in the South after Reconstruction were called _______.

• African American Codes

• African American Ratification

• Black Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

After slaves were set free, many of them began _____. They rented land from landowners and paid their rent with part of their crops.

• landsharing

• sharecropping

• corn crops

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choose two main problems with sharecropping:

• answer is not here

• It cost more to actually grow the crops than they got in profit.

• Ihey usually ended up in debt.

• all of the above

Choose all that are correct. Why was building and traveling to the West so difficult?

• They would have to cross the vast Great Plains

• They would have to cross the Rocky Mountains.

• They would have to cross the desert

• They would have to cross the rugged Sierra Nevada Mountains.

• All are correct