SSUSH 10

Literacy tests were used throughout the South after the U.S. Civil War to.........

• deny women the right to vote

• deny poor whites and african americans the right to vote

• increase voter turn out

• increase power of Republican party

The agency created by the United States Congress in 1865 to set up schools and churches, supply food and clothing, and solve employment issues for the former slaves?

• KKK

• Freedman's Bureau

• American Missionary Association

• NAACP

Each of the following is an example of the work done by which organization?

· Established by Congress on March 3, 1865

· Provided employment and medical assistance to former slaves

· Trained teachers and built over 1,000 schools

· Disbanded in 1869 due to a lack of success and funding

• Presidential Reconstruction

• Freedom's Bureau

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow laws

You need to know:

13th amendment

14th amendment

15th amendment

Poll Tax

Literacy Test

Black Codes

Grandfather Clause

Jim Crow Laws

Compromise of 1877

Which of the following was NOT a result of the Compromise of 1877?

• end of Reconstruction

• beginning of Jom Crow in the south

• Radical Republican control in Congress

• removal of federal troops in from the south

The 14th amendment of the United States requires

• States had to give all citizens, regardless of their race or religion, equal protection under the law.

• States could no longer make any laws that were not approved by the federal governmen

• States had to pass laws that gave more rights to freed slaves than to other citizens.

• States could no longer institute poll taxes or tests for citizens before they voted.

By the end of Reconstruction, most African Americans in the United States

• were still on land their ancestors had worked but now were owners of the land.

• migrated to rural southern communities to look for work as farmers.

• made economic and social gaisn as a result of constitutional amendments.

• were left out of the political process due to poll taxes and literacy tests.

The impeachment of President Andrew Johnson was due to

• he lied under oath

• he was a Confederate military general

• Power struggle he and Congress engaged in over Reconstruction

• he was a Radical Republican

What group was created in 1865 for the purpose of preventing both the programs of Reconstruction and laws promoting racial equality?

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Ku Klux Klan

• Know NOthing Party

• White Citizen Councils

The agency created by Congress to establish schools and churches as well as provide employment and nutrition assistance was the........

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Ku Klux Klan

• American Missionary Association

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People