USHC - Unit 3 - Spiral Review #2 - Fitzwater

What time period took place immediately after the end of the American Civil War?

• Gilded Age

• Reconstruction

• Progressive Era

• Great Society

During Reconstruction, the Black Codes passed by Southern states were attempts to...

• Provide land to former slaves

• Punish former Confederate leaders

• Repeal Jim Crow laws

• Deny equal rights to African Americans

What was the main goal of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) during Reconstruction Era?

• Prevent African Americans from exercising their rights

• Improve conditions for poor whites

• Gain control of state legislatures

• Restore the Confederacy

What was a goal of the Freedman’s Bureau?

• Sell land in the West to newly emancipated slaves

• Negotiated fair labor contracts between newly freed slaves and former masters

• Was established by Congress to provide food, education, and other social services to freedmen

• Was administered in local communities throughout the South by transplanted Washington, D.C., agents

When did all slaves in the United States achieve freedom?

• When the South seceded

• When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued

• When slaves reached Union lines during the war

• When the 13^th Amendment was ratified

Which statement summarizes the 15^th Amendment?

• It freed the slaves

• It gave all male citizens the right to vote

• It granted citizenship to African Americans

• It allowed all Confederate states to re-enter the Union

President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction after the Civil War included...

• Restoring the social conditions that existed before the war began

• Conducting trials for former Confederate leaders

• Reuniting the nation as quickly as possible

• Destroying the economic and social power of Southern planters

The underlying reason for the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson was...

• The Credit Mobilier scandal

• A power struggle with Congress over Reconstruction

• His refusal to appoint new justices to the Supreme Court

• His policies toward Native Americans

How did Reconstruction expand democracy in the United States?

• It allowed African Americans to vote and hold public office

• It allowed men and women to vote and hold public office

• It allowed immigrants to vote without gaining citizenship

• It allowed for universal white male suffrage

After the Civil War, freemen in the South had difficulty improving their economic condition because...

• Literacy for formerly enslaved persons was prohibited

• Migration of factory workers from Northern cities had created competition for jobs

• The federal government confiscated their 40-acre grants

• The system of sharecropping kept them in a cycle of poverty