5th Grade End of Year Review #2

Why did President Lincoln's Reconstruction policy change soon after he started it?

• Vice President Johnson was assassinated.

• President Lincoln was assassinated.

• Congress did not agree with the plan.

• Southerners did not agree with the plan.

How did Congress's Reconstruction plan differ from what most Southern whites wanted?

• Congress wanted to restrict the rights of African Americans.

• Congress did not want the South to rejoin the Union.

• Congress didn't want the military to help Southern whites.

• Congress wanted to give African Americans more basic rights.

How did the fifteenth amendment change some people's lives?

• It ended slavery and freed the slaves in the South.

• It gave legal protections to all US citizens.

• It made everyone in the U.S. citizens.

• It gave African American men the right to vote.

How did the sharecropping system affect African Americans during Reconstruction?

• It left them dependent on plantation owners.

• It gave them enough money to buy land.

• It gave them power over plantation owners.

• It allowed them to afford moving to the North.

What was a major accomplishment of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction?

• It won the right to vote for African Americans.

• It established citizenship for African Americans.

• It provided land for most African Americans.

• It built schools for some African Americans.

What is one way landowners had an advantage over newly freed slaves during reconstruction?

• Landowners could build new churches.

• Landowners had access to schools.

• Landowners owned their own land.

• Landowners could search for missing family members.

Why did groups such as the Ku Klux Klan use violence and intimidation against African Americans?

• They wanted to hold onto power in the South.

• They wanted to punish people who were moving North.

• They wanted Republicans to win elections.

• They thought African Americans should vote.

How was segregation different in the South compared to the North?

• It did not exist in the South.

• It was legal in the South.

• It did not exist anywhere in the North.

• It was legal in the North.

Which landform shown on the map caused problems for pioneers who were travelling to the West?

• Appalachain Mountains

• White Mountains

• Green Mountains

• Rocky Mountains

Which of the following was an environmental impact of Westward Expansion?

• Decreased population in Western cities

• Increased air and water pollution

• Increase wheat crops due to the use of fertilizers

• Decreased wheat crops due to soil contamination