Cumulative Exam Review

What did President Andrew Johnson do with abandoned land after the war?

• gave it to free African Americans

• Gave it back to white landowners

• Returned it to native Americans

Racial violence against Black people in the south often included...

• Lynching

• Robbery

• Kidnapping

Lynching is...

• Killing someone, usually by hanging, without a trial

• stealing from someone

• forcing someone to work at gunpoint

• Setting a persons house on fire

Which of the following amendments abolished slavery?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Emancipation meant that Southern landowners

• could no longer hire formerly enslaved people

• headed north to work in new industries

• could no longer rely on labor by enslaved people.

• lost their jobs to formerly enslaved people

Poll taxes and literacy tests took away the voting rights Black people gained with the

• fifth amendment (5th Amendment)

• fifteenth amendment (15th Amendment)

• Civil Rights Act (1875)

• thirteenth amendment (13th Amendment)

During Reconstruction nearly 700 African American men

• served as lawmakers in the South

• were elected to Congress from Southern states

• attended the Constitutional Convention

• became business owners

Why were Democrats angry after the presidential election of 1876?

• Democrats believed that their candidate had actually won

• They thought the voting system was unfair

• They wanted a second recount to decide a winner

• They thought the result was unconstitutional

To support the _______ amendment, Lincoln argued that slaver should be made illegal everywhere.

After ratification of the 15th amendment ________ rights could not be denied based on race.