8th Grade SS Midterm Review

The Reconstruction Acts said the South had to be broken up into military districts, this was part of

• Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction

• Johnson's plan for Reconstruction

• Radical Republican's plan for Reconstruction

• 14th amendment

The 13th, 14th , and 15th amendments were added to the Constitution during the Reconstruction period to

• bring an end to the Civil War

• imporve the operation of the electoral college

• limit the powers of the president

• grant legal rights to African Americans

Lincoln and Johnson's plans for reconstruction were simiar becuase

• They wanted to pass the Reconstruction acts

• they were lenient on the South

• they sent carpetbaggers down south

• they divided the south into 5 military districts

Why were Jim Crow Laws passed in the south?

• to protect black voting rights

• to ensure the education of black children

• to prevent blacks from purchasing their own land

• to separate blacks from whites in almost all aspects of life

Which group was most affected by the passage of the Civil War Amendments (13, 14,15)?

• women

• immigrants

• former salves

• northern manufacturers

In the Plessy v Ferguson decision, the Supreme Court ruled that

• Segregation was illegal

• States did not have to grant the right to vote to blacks

• Segregation was legal where there were separate but equal facilities

• Grandfather clauses violated the Constitution

The term carpetbaggers was used during Reconstruction to describe

• Southern whites who supported Radical Republican programs

• African Americans who gained control of former Southern plantations

• Northerners who moved to the South seeking personal gain

• formerly enslaved African Americans who moved West

During the 1840s the idea of Manifest Destiny was used to

• demand equalr rights for African Americans

• Support westward expansion to the Pacific

• Criticize government treatment of Native American Indians

• Extend slavery into New England

In which of the following ways did the transcontinental railroad help to build America?

• increased settlement of the frontier

• cities of the East expanded

• agricultural production decreased

• immigrants were restricted from entering the U.S.

How did the government encourage building of the transcontinental railroad?

• By giving land to railroad companies

• passing the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments

• making it illegal to kill buffalo

• allowing Native Americans to continue to their culture and traditions