Quiz 4

Amendment that ended slavery in the United States

• 1st Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

President during the Civil War

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Jefferson

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

Reading and writing exams designed to prevent African Americans from voting

• Literacy Tests

• Jim Crow Laws

• 13th Amendment

• Constitutional Reading Exam

Constitutional Amendments adopted during Reconstruction were intended to

• provide legal and political rights for African Americans

• end property and religious requirements for voting

• correct problems with the electoral college system

• limit the number of terms of the president

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were adopted in Southern States primarily to

• enforce the terms of the 15th Amendment

• keep African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

• stop criminal and immigrants from voting

• eliminate bribery and corruption at polling places

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 were attempts by the federal government to

• limit immigration from Europe

• reduce conflicts over slavery

• settle border disputes with Mexico

• control western migration

A primary reason for the passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments was to

• prohibit the succession of states

• uphold the legality of the Black Codes

• continue the presidential plan for Reconstruction

• guarantee citizenship rights to newly freed slaves

The Civil War was fought between

• Confederates (south) vs. Union (north)

• Western USA vs. Eastern USA

• North Korea vs. South Korea

• United States vs. USSR

Supreme Court case that determined separate by equal facilities were constitutional (segregation was ok)

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Roe v. Wade

• Korematsu v. US

Statement by Lincoln that took effect in January 1, 1863. It ended slavery in the states in rebellion

• Monroe Doctrine

• Declaration of Independence

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Treaty of Versailles