What amendment of the U.S. Constitution abolish slavery?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution.....

• gave African Americans citizenship

• gave African Americans the right to vote

• abolished slavery

• gave landowners the right to lease out their lad to sharecropper

The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution

• gave African Americans the right to own their own business

• freed the slaves

• gave African Americans the right to vote

• forced African Americans back into slavery

The organization put in place after the Civil War to provide food, clothing, healthcare and education in the South was known as

• Reconstruction

• The Freemen's bureau

• The Welfare Committee

• The Salvation Army

Which agreement resulted from the Compromise of 1877 between Southern Democrats and Northern Republicans?

• Southern States accepted federal tariffs in exchange for new railroad construction and investments in Southern industries

• Southern plantation owners would receive compensation for free enslaved people in exchange for agreeing to swear loyalty to the Union

• Northern Republicans would end Reconstruction and the occupation of Southern cities in exchange for the presidency

During Reconstruction, many southern states passed these laws that restricted Africans from traveling without a permit, owning firearms or from gathering in the streets after nightfall.

• Reconstruction Amendments

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Acts

• Black Codes

What was the system of agriculture developed in the late 19th century, in which a landowner allowed a tenant to use the land in return for a portion of what was produced ?

• Slash and burn farming

• Share cropping

• Rent farming

What did Jim Crow laws do?

• They provided equal treatment for all U.S. citizens

• Enforced laws which made segregation legal

• Denied African Americans the right to vote

The Ku Klux Klan was a group that believed

• In white supremacy

• In equality for all

• In black supremacy

• In southern supremacy

What did the Radical Reconstruction Act of 1867 accomplish?

• Forced former confederates to pay a tax

• Distributed land to former slaves

• Divided the Soutern region of the United States into five military districts controlled military governors