The Fifteenth Amendment protected the rights of African American men to

• equal treatment.

• petition.

• bear arms.

• vote.

he Fourteenth Amendment defined who could be considered a U.S. citizen. Which group did the Amendment exclude from U.S. citizenship?

• African Americans.

• The Native Americans.

• Antislavery supporters.

• Confederacy supporters.

Which phrase below best describes a purpose of Jim Crow Laws?

• To educate the freed slaves.

• To keep the races separate.

• To legalize the Ku Klux Klan.

Which statement best describes why many Southern lawmakers felt that passing the Black Codes was necessary following the Civil War?

• They wanted to create public schools to teach skills to African Americans after the Civil War.

• They felt that former slaves were unlikely to become a strong force of political opposition.

• They felt that former slaves were unlikely to become involved members of the local community.

• They wanted to recreate social conditions that existed in the South prior to the Civil War.

What did ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment mean for African Americans?

• It provided African Americans with a future free from slavery.

• It gave African Americans the same economic opportunities as white Americans.

• It gave African American citizens the right to vote.

• It provided AfricanAmericans with compensation for their labor during slavery.

The main goal of Reconstruction was to

• establish a new national government following the Civil War.

• readmit the former Confederate states into the Union.

• provide newly freed slaves with land and money.

• provide newly freed slaves with land and money.

The Emancipation Proclamation was an order from Lincoln to

• calling for all Confederate slaves to be freed.

• requiring slaves to join Union troops.

• ending slavery in the United States.

• granting slaves U.S. citizenship.

Which of these news headlines would have most likely appeared in Northern newspapers the day after the Battle of Antietam?

• Spirit of the North Broken by the Outcome of Antietam

• Union Gains an Edge on the Confederacy

• Confederate Leader Gives His Life in Antietam

• The Confederacy’s Greatest Triumph

Which Best describes the Mayflower Compact?

• The direct contact with Native Americans.

• How the government of Roanoke was established.

• First attempt at self rule.

• The establishment of the first Protestant church.

The Civil War began with the

• election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency.

• abolition of slavery in the South.

• election of Stephen Douglas to the presidency.

• firing of Confederate guns on Fort Sumter.