STAAR REVIEW MOCK2023 u.s. history

Era of rebuilding after the Civil War; Readmitting the Confederate states into the Union

• Impeachment

• Homestead

• Republicans

• Reconstruction

Controlled Congress during Reconstruction; Wanted to use Reconstruction as a way to punish the South

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Impeachment

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Radical Republicans

1st African American elected to the U.S. Senate

• Andrew Johnson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

Gave citizenship and equal protection to anyone born in the U.S. 

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Abolished Slavery in all of the United States

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

First African-American to be elected into the U.S. Senate, represented Mississippi. 

• Abraham Lincoln
• Hiram Rhodes Revels
• Ulysses S. Grant

What are unalienable rights?

• rights given by the president

• rights the government can't take away from you

• rights given by congress

What are the big 3 unalienable rights?

• life, property, and liberty

• time, money, and power

• life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

Which of the following best describes what the Continental Congresses were?

• a series of meetings planned to respond to England

• a provisional government designed to negotiate peace

• a local Pennsylvania legislature debating England's taxes

John Locke believed that all people had:

• Natural Rights

• Individual rights

• Some rights