Test Review: Civil War, Reconstruction, & Westward Migration

Members of Congress who wanted to punish former Confederate leaders and protect the rights of African-Americans

The ___ ____ Laws which enforced segregation

The 13th, 14th, and 15th __________ were meant to protect citizens from discrimination based on racial differences.

These kept African-Americans from voting because they made it too expensive for poor sharecroppers to register to vote.

One effect of the Civil War was the completion of the ________________ railroad because it was meant to tie the country together.

The dry, grassy treeless region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains

As the Civil War began, President Lincoln said that his goal was to preserve the...

Match the following amendments

• 13th

• Gave the federal government the power to protect the rights of all citizens

• 15th

• Abolished slavery

• 14th

• Gave the right to vote to all men

The ________ Compromise (1820) required adding a new free state for every slave state added to the Union

In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court upheld ________ ___ _____ in public places.