Midterm Review

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

The Freedmen's Bureau was set up following the passing of the 13th amendment to help which of the following people groups?

• Native Americans

• immigrants and the urban poor

• freedmen and white refugees

This political party believed the South should be punished and that African Americans should be granted full political and civil equality.

• Progressive Party

• Populist Party

• Radical Republicans

• Democratic Party

Which amendment prevents states from denying African Americans or other minorities the rights and privileges of citizens (gives freedmen citizenship)?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Before the 14th amendment was passed, these prevented freedmen from voting, serving on juries, holing office, serving in the militia, and marrying whites.

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Segregation Laws

This prohibited discrimination based on race and was eventually rewritten as the 14th Amendment.

• Black Codes

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• 13th Amendment

The was passed by the Radical Republicans; it divided the South into five districts, each occupied by the Union army and placed under martial law.

• Reconstruction Act of 1867

• 10% Plan

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Congressional Reconstruction

Which amendment allowed any citizen the right to vote (suffrage), no matter their race or previous "servitude"?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

These were poor whites from the North who came to exploit the South.

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

Scalawags were Southern whites who supported Reconstruction.

• true

• false