Unit 1 Test US History II

What did the 14th amendment accomplish?

• Freedom of religion

• Grants citizenship and equal protection

• Made slavery illegal

• Guarantees voting rights

What did the 15th amendment accomplish?

• Grants citizenship & equal protection

• Right to bear arms

• Bans slavery

• Guarantees voting rights

These were used to take away the rights of African Americans in the South after the Civil War.

• Amendments

• White Codes

• Black Codes

• Civil Rights

This group used fear & violence to prevent African Americans from voting in the South following Reconstruction

• Black Codes

• Ku Klux Klan

• Radical Republicans

• Carpetbaggers

Agricultural & economic practice where a land owner allows a tenant farmer to work his land for a share of his crop

• sustenance farming

• sharecropping

• carpetbagger

• slavery

Which is the best description of Reconstruction?

• rebuilding the US after a big earthquake
• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War
• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War
• unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

Which of these amendments gives citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 18th Amendment

The 13th Amendment ...

• banned slavery
• grants voting rights
• grants citizenship and equal protection
• restores Confederate rights

Abraham Lincoln believed...

• African Americans needed Constitutional Amendments to guarantee voting rights
• in the southern cause
• southern states should have to prove their loyalty after the war
• preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the south

Laws passed by southern states soon after the Compromise of 1877.  These laws legalized segregation whites and blacks to use separate facilities. 

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