US History 1st Semester Final Exam

What amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th

The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• guarantees African Americans free speech
• Outlawed slavery in the United States
• gave African Americans the right to vote
• rejoined the South and the North

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 of the following was not a goal of Reconstruction?

• Reunite the North and the South
• Rebuild the South
• Develop the system of sharecropping
• Determine what to do with African Americans

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

What group in Congress felt that Lincoln's plan was too lenient?

• Deciduous Democrats
• Radical Republicans
• Wistful Whigs
• Fancy Federalists

These were laws that made it illegal for African Americans to live or work in certain areas and allowed whites to arrest African Americans who were not working.  Once arrested they would be forced to work for white landowners. 

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

The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War. 

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

Strict punishment of Confederate veterans and financial assistance to African Americans were policies pushed by which of the following group during the Reconstruction Era?

• 
  Radical Democrats
• Moderate Republicans
• Radical Republicans
• Moderate Democrats

The organization put in place after the Civil War to provide food, clothing, health care and education in the South was known as:

• The Civil Rights Committee
• The Freedmen's Bureau
• The Welfare Committee
• The Salvation Army