Unit 1 Test - Reconstruction and Westward Expansion

The Fourteenth Amendment states that—

• Slavery is banned throughout the U.S.
• Southern property will be confiscated.
• The president had veto power over certain legislation
• All people born or naturalized in the U.S. are citizens.

What is the main idea of the statement: Slavery shall not exist in the United States - 13th Amendment

• Former slaves have the right to vote
• People have the right to a public trial
• Slavery is abolished in the United States
• Slavery will be decided by popular sovereignty

The Fourteenth Amendment defined who could be considered a U.S. citizen.  Which group did the Amendment exclude from U.S. citizenship?

• Native Americans
• African Americans
• Anti-slavery supporters
• Confederacy supporters

The cartoon above illustrates which Reconstruction Amendment?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Who was NOT granted the right to vote during Reconstruction?

• Women
• Poor whites
• Carpetbaggers
• African Americans

The main goal of Reconstruction was to—

• Provide newly freed slaves with land and money.
• Readmit the former Confederate states to the Union.
• Revive the economies of northern states after the Civil War
• Establish a new national government following the Civil War

What was the major duty of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• To return former slaves to their masters
• To help Southern states form new governments
• To help former slaves get an education and a job
• To help Southern plantation owners find a source of labor

Southern governments passed Black Codes to—

• Limit the civil rights of African Americans.
• Take steps to integrate Africans Americans into southern culture.
• Show the federal government that the South could not be controlled.
• Provide work opportunities for freed African Americans in the South.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was important because it allowed—

• Workers to join labor unions
• Women to gain voting rights
• African Americans to gain equal rights
• Confederate soldiers to receive veterans’ rights

Carpetbaggers moved to the South to start businesses and—

• Free slaves
• Get married
• Go to college
• Buy cheap land