SS Week 18

Which political party had the most power in Alabama before the Civil War?

• the Whig party

• the Democratic party

• the American party

• the Republican party

How many African American men from Alabama were elected to the U.S. Congress?

• 3

• 5

• 12

• 27

What were the Democrats united on?

• that cotton should be subsidized

• that Mexico should join the Union

• that Stephen Douglas should run for the U.S. presidency

• that Republicans were a danger to the South

Which person started a school for African American children?

• Benjamin Sterling Turner

• James T. Rapier

• Jeremiah Haralson

• Hiram Revels

Jeremiah Haralson was an unusual African American politician because __________.

• he supported secession

• he started his own political party

• he started as a Democrat before becoming a Republican

• he met Abraham Lincoln

Where did James T. Rapier attend school?

• the U.S., Mexico, and Sweden

• France, the U.S., and Egypt

• England, Germany, and the U.S.

• the U.S., Scotland, and Canada

Who became the president after Lincoln? 

• George Washington

• Andrew Johnson

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Ulysses S. Grant

What were the Black Codes?

• the agricultural practice of burning cotton fields every four years

• a code that members of the Underground Railroad used

• laws that tried to return African Americans to slavery

• a series of popular books about the Civil War

What did the 13th amendment do?

• It gave all African American men the right to vote.

• It made seceding from the Union illegal.

• It protected all Americans’ civil rights.

• It abolished slavery.

After the Civil War, who did the Southern farmland go to?

• soldiers who fought for the Union

• new immigrants from Europe

• the people who owned the land before the war

• Northerners who migrated south