Week 17 AL Studies

The living conditions of African Americans improved after they were emancipated.

• True

• False

During Reconstruction, ________ wanted laws that helped white people and _______  wanted laws that helped formerly enslaved people.

• Democrats; Republicans

• Congress; Reconstructionists

African American students and white students being taught in separate schools is an example of what?

• segregation

• adaptation

• ratification

• emancipation

abolished slavery

• 13th Ammendment

• 14th Ammendment

• 15th Ammendment

gave citizenship to formerly enslaved people

• 14th Ammendment

• 13th Ammendment

• 15th Ammendment

gave African American men the right to vote

• 13th Ammendment

• 14th Ammendment

• 15th Ammendment

After the Civil War, Alabama began shifting from an agrarian society to an _____________ society.

• industrial

• agricultural

• institutional

• authoritarian

What is suffrage?

• the right to work

• the right to vote

• the right of a citizen

• the right to own land

How long did the Freedmen's Bureau operate in Alabama?

• 4 years

• 5 years

• 6 years

• 7 years

Why was it difficult for Alabama to make much economic progress after the Civil War?

• The government was unstable.

• Cotton prices were high.

• The state debt was renegotiated

• Iron ore and coal were being mined.