Social Studies Review

What amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th

What Amendment was passed to guarantee African American men the right to vote?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

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

Which term was used by Southerners to describe people that moved south to make money by taking advantage of the war-torn economy?

• scalawags
• sharecroppers
• social elite
• carpetbaggers

Which of the following is one of the consequences of the Compromise 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

Immediately following the Civil War and during Reconstruction, the intent of the Ku Klux Klan was to

• Register Freedmen to vote

• Protect Freedmen from violence

• help Freedmen find jobs

• Prevent Freedmen from voting

_________________ rented land, equipment, and supplies in order to grow crops. At the end of each harvest, land owners were paid with a portion of the crop.

• Tenant Farmer
• Sharecropper
• Land Owner
• Plantation Owners

Why did the South establish black codes?

• to provide help for newly freed African Americans
• to keep African Americans from enjoying all of their rights
• to help the freed slaves have normal lives
• to make sure that each African American took a citizenship test

What was another name for a southerner who sided with the Radical republicans that wanted to punish the south for the war?

• Carpetbagger

• Ku Klux Klan

• Democrat

• Scalawag

What limited the physical and economic freedoms of African Americans immediately after the Civil War?

• 13th Amendment
• JIm Crow Laws
• Black Codes
• Civil Rights Act of 1866