A Changing Nation

The period after the Civil War when the southern states were brought back into the U.S. and newly-freed slaves found their place in society is known as the

• rewind

• reconstruction

• reworked

• destruction

The 13th Amendment of the US Constitution ended all

• freedom

• slavery

• drinking

• wars

Which government agency helped freed slaves after the Civil War?

• Confederacy

• Emancipation Proclamation

• US Army

• Freedmen's Bureau

After the Civil War, many former slave owners agreed to give former slaves supplies and a place to live. For rent, the former slave had to give the owner part of his crop plus extra money. This was known as

• Farming Friends

• Sharecropping

• Crop Rotation

• Slavery Shift

What term is used to describe when people are separated because of differences like race or religion?

• segregation

• convergent

• divergent

• destructive

Southern laws that discriminated against former slaves and segregated blacks and whites after the Civil war were know as

• Confederate laws

• Jim Crow laws

• Lincoln laws

• Jefferson Davis laws

Which event directly affected settlers' lives on the Great Plains?

• Native American Act

• Homestead Act

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Great Plains Act

Which event involved native americans and U.S. Soldiers?

• California Gold Rush

• Homestead Act

• Great Plains Act

• Battle of Little Big Horn

A person searching for gold, silver, or other minerals

• prospector

• black codes

• segregation

• freedmen

Fast economic or population growth

• boom

• bust

• acquit

• freedmen