Unit 10 Vocabulary

What was the Law that abolished slavery in the U.S. right after the Civil War?

• 14th Amendment
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Civil Rights Act of 1866
• 13th Amendment

After the Civil War, which law granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S., including formerly enslaved persons?

• Emancipation Proclamation
• 14th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Which law gave men the right to vote, regardless of their race?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Declaration of Independence
• 15th Amendment

What were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans?

• Freedom Laws
• Equality Acts
• Civil Rights Statutes
• Black Codes

What was an insulting term for Northerners who moved to the south for economic or political opportunities?

• yankees
• rebels
• yankee-doodles
• carpetbaggers

What was rhe period after the Civil War in which the federal government enacted and attempted to enforce equal suffrage on the ex-Confederate states?

• Revolution
• Reformation
• Congressional Reconstruction

• Restoration

Who were people who were free from slavery after the Civil War?

• Liberated Asians
• Freed Europeans
• Released Native Americans
• Freedmen

What was a federal agency created in 1865 to help newly freed slaves?

• Freedmen's Bureau
• Emancipation Bureau
• Liberty Commission
• Freedmen's Association

What was a white supremacist domestic terrorist group who used violence to gain power in the South?

• Ku Klux Klan
• Weather Underground
• Neo-Nazis
• Black Panthers

What is the term for completely absolving a person of the crime and letting them go free?

• prosecution
• pardon

• sentencing
• conviction