FMS Social Studies Final Exam Review PT 1

What event freed the slaves in the United States of America?

• Gettysburg Address
• Bill of Rights
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Reconstruction Amendments (13th-15th)

What amendment abolishes slavery?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 10th

Who won the Civil War?

• Union
• Confederates

The South's system of forced labor force in which people were treated as property

• slavery
• states' rights
• tariffs
• factories

What was Lincoln's main goal throughout the Civil War?

• to abolish slavery
• to end British control of the Western territories
• to make a profit selling war supplies
• to preserve the Union

Which is NOT a reason early Americans moved west?

• Manifest Destiny
• Cheaper land/Less crowded
• Gold Rush
• To be a cowboy

The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans citizenship
• Gave African Americans the right to vote
• Freed the slaves
• Gave landowners the right to sharecrop

The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans the right to own businesses
• Freed the Slaves
• Gave African Americans the right to vote
• Forced African Americans back into slavery

Northerners who went south after the Civil War to make large profits from the destruction in the south were called

• Scalawags
• Ku Klux Klan
• Carpetbaggers
• Sharecroppers

Laws passed by southern states soon after the Compromise of 1877.  These laws legalized segregation whites and blacks to use separate facilities. 

• Jim Crow Laws
• Black Codes
• Freedman's Bureau
• Reconstruction