African American Studies -Abolitionism/Civil War/Reconstruction

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution

• Gave black men the right to vote

• Outlawed slavery in the U.S.

• Provided citizenship for the newly released slaves

• Abolished black codes in the southern states

 What was the main significance of the Fourteenth Amendment in U.S. political history?

• It established the rights of all citizens to hold property.

• It promised equal legal protection to former slaves.

• It granted women the right to participate in political organizations.

• It declared slavery and all other forms of servitude illegal.

What was the name of the rules set in place to allow segregation?

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Freedmans Bureau

• Jim Crow/Black Codes

• Fugative Slave Laws

 What did the Fifteenth Amendment do?

• Abolished slavery

• Gave legal protection to former slaves

• Allowed for the direct election of senators

• Gave African American men the right to vote

 This is a famous group of African American soldiers who fought in the Civil War:

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Harlem Hellfighters

• 54th Massachusetts Regiment

All of the following were methods used to deny African Americans their rights in the South after the Civil War EXCEPT

• Poll Taxes

• The Grandfather Clause

• Literacy Tests

• The 14th Amendment 

What government organization was created to provide food, clothing, education, etc for African Americans right after the Civil War?

• Freedmans Bureau

• FEMA

• NAACP

All of the following are true about the Missouri Compromise EXCEPT

• Missouri was admitted into the Union as a slave state

• It established the doctrine of popular sovereignty to determine free and slave states

• It established the 36th Parallel as the boundary line for the containment of slavery

• Maine was admitted into the Union as a free state

What was the implication of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act was declared unconstitutional.

• Slaves could no longer be considered property.

• Slaves who escaped to a free state must be returned to their masters

• Slaves who escaped to a free state were legally free.

What was the legacy of the era depicted in this nineteenth-century illustration above?

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• Oppression of African Americans by the Ku Klux Klan

• The Freedman’s Bureau

•  The 15th Amendment