Civil War and Reconstruction

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation actually freed?

• Only the slaves in the Confederacy, so none of them

• Only slaves in Western Territories

• Only slaves in the border states

• All of the slaves in the North and South

What Amendment grants citizenship to all person born on American soil except for Native Americans.

• The 14th Amendment

• The 16th Amendment

• The 13th Amendment

• The 15th Amendment

What practice was established in America by the landmark Supreme Court Case Plessy Versus Ferguson.

• Separate but Equal segregation

• Freedom of the Press

• Slaves were property and not citizens

• Separation of Church and State

Sharecropping and Tenant Farming is:

• A policy that gave Freed Slaves who helped the North during the war 40 acres and a mule

• A system of farming that left freed slaves and poor whites in debt to wealthy land owners and tied to the land

• Allowing Freed Slaves the ability to work land without having to buy it or pay for their supplies to help them get ahead after Slavery ended

• A system from the Freedmen's Bureau to allow economically disadvantaged people in the south the opportunity to own land

What laws sought to restrict the freedoms of African Americans after slavery ended and they become the basis of Jim Crow Laws?

• Separate but Equal Doctrine

• Sharecropping

• The Grandfather laws

• Black Codes

Slavery is outlawed in the US by this amendment:

• The 13th Amendment

• The 14th Amendment

• The 15th Amendment

• The 16th Amendment

The constitutional clause known as the Elastic Clause gives Congress the authority to ________.

• “make all laws necessary and proper” to carry out its powers.

• “declare war” with consent of the president and Supreme Court.

• “override a president’s veto” with a two-thirds majority vote.

• “coin and distribute money” as needed to improve the economy.

What do you call a person who was opposed to slavery and worked toward ending it?

• Secessionist

• Lincolnist

• Abolitionist

• Whig

The US Supreme Court decided that this man was still just a slave, even though he had lived in a free territory, setting the stage for slavery to be legal everywhere

• Uncle Tom

• Tony Stark

• Dred Scott

• Brown v Board

What laws sought to restrict the freedoms of African Americans after slavery ended and they become the basis of Jim Crow Laws?

• Cheat Codes

• Morse Codes

• Black Codes

• Nuclear Codes