8th Grade Final Exam Review #1

This amendment abolished slavery. 

• 12th 
• 13th 
• 14th
• 15th

Many southern states passed laws after the Compromise of 1877.  The laws that legalized the segregation of whites and blacks were called

• Jim Crow Laws
• Black Codes
• Freedman's Bureau
• Reconstruction

What was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction?

• To keep woman from using their newly-gained rights
• To keep African American families from being torn apart
• To keep the southern elite from taking over the government
• keep African Americans from using their newly-gained rights

Which of the following exclusion tactics did Southern blacks NOT face when attempting to vote?

• picture identification
• literacy test
• grandfather clause
• poll tax

What group of people was largely left out of the political process after the Civil war because of poll taxes, literacy tests, and the KKK

• African Americans
• Carpetbaggers
• Scalawags
• Radical Republicans

The Plessy v. Ferguson case had what impact on the U.S.?

• It legalized Jim Crow (Segregation) Laws throughout the U.S.

• It made Jim Crow (Segregation) Laws illegal throughout the U.S.

• It created more equality

Radical Republicans thought President Johnson's Reconstruction Plan was

• too harsh

• to lenient

• protected the civil rights of Freedmen

• promotes sharecropping

Which factor contributed most to the decline of the Buffalo?

• Disease
• Lack of Water
• Lack of Food
• Over-hunting

Why did settlers and Plains Indians come into conflict?

• Native Americans liked war
• Native Americans wanted to build their own railroad
• Natives attacked settlers for no reason
• settlers ignored treaties protecting Indian land

The term "sodbusters" refers to..

• railroad workers laying track.
• Great Plains farmers breaking up the sod to get to the soil.
• Oklahoma Sooners
• cowhands