Unit 4 Review

What was the main cause of the Civil War?

• slavery
• states' rights
• political differences
• economic differences

Which amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery?

• 13
• 14
• 15
• 17

Who were the "Carpetbaggers" during the Reconstruction era?

• Northern businessmen who moved to the South after the war
• Former slaves who moved to the North after the war
• Southern plantation owners who lost their land during the war
• Northern soldiers who fought in the Civil War

When did the Reconstruction era officially end?

• 1865
• 1868
• 1877
• 1883

After the Civil War, the sharecropping system emerged in the South primarily as a way to

• diversify agricultural production
• provide a labor supply to plantation owners
• give forty acres of land to freedmen
• guarantee economic equality for African Americans

Which statement best describes how the status of African Americans in the South changed soon after the end of Reconstruction?

• The Supreme Court consistently supported civil rights for African Americans.
• Poll taxes and literacy tests were eliminated for African Americans.
• Increasing numbers of African Americans were elected to public office.
• African Americans faced increasing discrimination and segregation.

After the Civil War, the purpose of adding the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution was to

• grant civil and political rights to Native American Indians
• allow women to become full citizens
• guarantee African Americans equal treatment under the law
• extend constitutional rights to new territories

Starting in the 1870s, Jim Crow laws were enacted in Southern states as a means to

• provide an education for formerly enslaved persons
• protect the voting rights of formerly enslaved persons
• enforce racial segregation
• ensure equal protection under the law

The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) affected civil rights in the United States by

• ruling that segregated schools were unconstitutional
• rejecting the legal basis of Jim Crow laws
• approving racial segregation in public facilities
• strengthening the protections of the 14th Amendment

Which form of agriculture became dominant in the South in the decades immediately following the Civil War?

• homesteading
• sharecropping
• ranching
• cooperative farming