SS.912.A.2 Civil War and Reconstruction

What did the 13th Amendment accomplish?

• It granted citizenship to African Americans

• It provided equal protection under the law to all people

• It abolished slavery

• It prohibited the denial of voting rights based on race

Which Amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

What was the impact of Jim Crow laws in the post-Reconstruction era?

• They abolished slavery

• They enforced racial segregation and discrimination

• They granted voting rights to African Americans

• They provided equal job opportunities for minority groups

What was one of the negative outcomes of the sharecropping system?

• It led to the industrialization of the South

• It provided economic stability for African Americans

• It resulted in cycles of debt and poverty for many freed people

• It increased political participation for sharecroppers

How were Native Americans affected after the Civil War and Reconstruction?

• They were granted full citizenship and land rights

• They faced continued mistreatment and displacement

• They were fully integrated into white society without issues

• They received reparations for past injustices

Which legislative item in the Compromise of 1850 was considered a moderate Northern victory?

• Slave trade, but not slavery itself, abolished in the District of Columbia

• Texas receives $10 million

• Strong federal enforcement of new Fugitive Slave Act

• Popular sovereignty to determine slavery issue in Utah and New Mexico territories

What was the Ostend Manifesto of 1854 a rationale for?

• The United States to declare war on Mexico if they refused to sell Texas

• The United States to purchase Alaska from Russia

• The United States to purchase Cuba from Spain

• The United States to annex the Philippines

According to the Ostend Manifesto, what would Cuba become if it ever came to be of the Manifesto?

• A free and independent republic

• A slave territory or state

• A territory for European immigrants

• A manufacturing hub for the U.S.

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 accomplish?

• It established the principle of popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.

• It created the states of Kansas and Nebraska as free states.

• It extended the Missouri Compromise line westward.

• It allowed for the expansion of slavery into the northern states.

What was the main effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise through the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• It allowed slavery in all new territories.

• It prohibited slavery in all new territories.

• It allowed slavery north of the compromise line where it had been prohibited.

• It established a new compromise line further north.