American History Final Review

Amendments 13 through 15, called the Civil Rights amendments, because

• each guarantees the right to a trial by jury.

• each were passed to protect the rights of former slaves

• each created committees to end the problems between the North and the South

• each reformed voting practices such as setting 18 as the minimum voting age

One complaint that nativists made was that immigrants

• Took jobs away from Native born Americans

• Adopted American customs

• Were mainly Protestants

• Took over American farms

What is the time period after the Civil War where the South was rebuilt and the United States was slowly put back together?

• Roaring 20’s

• Reconstruction

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

Who were Northern Republicans who moved to the South after the Civil War?

• Carpetbaggers

• Confederates

• Progressives

• Scalawags

What were southern laws that placed land restrictions, curfews, labor contracts, and vagrancy requirements on freed blacks after the Civil War?

• Civil Rights

• 1st amendment

• Bill of Rights

• Black Codes

Food, clothing, and education were provided to former slaves by the

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedman’s Bureau

• Wade-Davis Bill

• Democrats

The painting above best illustrates which 19th century idea of western expansion?

• Popular Sovereignty

• Transcendentalism

• Manifest Destiny

• Abolitionism

Mass production of the automobile was made possible by

• The assembly line

• Steel engines

• Organized labor

• Child labor

Tenements were often found in

• Crowded cities

• Middle class neighborhoods

• Farming areas

• Europe but not in the U.S.

The decision of the Supreme Court in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case is important because it

• Upheld the legality of sharecropping

• Denounced the violence of the Ku Klux Klan

• Approved the idea of separate but equal

• Declared slavery illegal