(ULS) US History Midterm Review

This is the time period after the Civil War where the South had to be rebuilt socially, politically, and economically.

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

• Imperialism

• Reconstruction

This amendment banned slavery (except for punishment for a crime).

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

This amendment gave black men the right to vote.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

This amendment stated anyone born in the United States is a citizen with equal rights.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

The Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...

• establish churches to provide aid in the Southern states.

• reunify the former Confederate States and to craft a plan to readmit them to the Union.

• establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.

• abolish former Confederate governments and to punish former Confederate leaders.

After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to

• punish plantation owners for the use of slavery

• support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South

• promote the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau

• limit rights of freedmen after the passage of the 13th Amendment

Which of the following were NOT created to limit voting rights of African Americans?

• Literacy tests

• Poll taxes

• Secret ballots

• Grandfather clause

What ended Native American resistance to the US government on the plains?

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• The Great Surrender

• Dawes Act

• The Battle of Little Bighorn

What was the goal of the Americanization of Native Americans?

• Move Naives further west

• Abandon their culture and assimilate into American society

• Educate Americans about Native culture

• Create peace between warring tribes.

Which of the following did NOT happen as white American settlers moved west?

• Native Americans lost millions of acres of land

• Native Americans began to lose their culture & assimilate

• Killing of thousands of buffalos, a key part of the Native people's culture

• Native Americans lost their land to warring British and Canadians