U.S. History Year Review (EOC Prep)

What are the three branches of government

• congressional, executive, judicial
• congressional, executive, legislative
• executive, judicial, legislative
• judicial, legislative, professional

What Amendment was passed to guarantee African American men the right to vote?

• 13th

• 14th

• 16th

• 15th

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 19th

What group gained control of Congress after Lincoln's assassination?

• Southern Democrats
• Former Confederates
• Radical Republicans
• Communists 

Under Presidential Reconstruction, southern whites passed laws restricting the rights of African Americans called--

• Black codes

• Slave Laws

• Confederate Rights

• Merica Laws

The white terrorist group that attacked Blacks and white republicans to restore Democratic control in the South was the--

• Kappa Kappa Kappa
• Redeemers
• Pure Race Fraternity 
• Ku Klux Klan

How did the 14th amendment overrule the Dred Scott decision?

• It abolished slavery
• It said slaves could vote
• It protected African Americans as equal citizens
• It said that African Americans could move north

Which of the following reversed the Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

• A. The Dawes Act
• B. The Fourteenth Amendment
• C. The Compromise of 1877
• D. The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Reconstruction was the process of

• rebuilding the South after the Civil War
• creating land zones for freedmen after the Civil War
• instituting Black Codes for former slaves
• eliminating the plantation economy in the South

After an electoral dispute resulting in the Compromise of 1877, it was agreed that Rutherford B. Hayes would become President if

• he would create a new Freedmen's Bureau
• he ended Reconstruction and removed troops from the south
• he would allow African Africans full rights in the North only
• he created pro-cotton legislation in Congress