South Carolina History: Civil War Reconstruction and Progressive Era

Choose all options that are correct: How did life change for African Americans after the Civil War?

• Slavery was abolished

• They were treated equally and fairly in the South

• They were granted voting rights in the Constitution

• They were assimilated into white society in the South

Creator of the Presidential Reconstruction plan that was lenient to former Confederate leaders, allowing them to to reclaim power and implement black codes in the South. Impeached and nearly removed from the Office of President.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Jackson

• Andrew Johnson

• John Johnson

As reconstruction ended and white southerners regained power, they worked to strip African Americans of their voting and civil rights. One way was to require voters to demonstrate that they could read and write in order to vote. This impacted many African Americans that had been denied educational opportunities during the period of slavery.

• Poll Tax

• Literacy Test

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Segregation

Secret society that resorted to violence and terror in order to maintain power; they used verbal threats and violence to intimidate African Americans and prevent them from voting.

• al Qaeda

• Radical Republicans

• Carpetbaggers

• Ku Klux Klan

System that started as a positive opportunity for African Americans but ended in a situation just like slavery. A white plantation owner rented plots of land to African Americans, loaned them seed and supplies, and the African American worked the land hoping to make enough money to pay off the loan and earn a profit. Instead, they usually ended up in debt and working for free.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Segregation

• Sharecropping

• Poll Tax

This reconstruction amendment gave equal protection and citizenship rights to everyone born in the United States, even if your parents were slaves.

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

This reconstruction amendment officially abolished slavery; all reconstruction plans required that southern states ratify this amendment in order to rejoin the government.

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

This reconstruction amendment stated that the right to vote could not be denied by race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This amendment was designed to protect the right to vote of African Americans, yet southern states found ways around it like poll taxes and literacy tests.

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

Before the Civil War, the North and South argued over whether new land would have slavery or not. Why is it important to keep the same amount of slave and free states?

• So slavery doesn't get to the North

• So slavery doesn't get to the South

• So power is balanced in government

• Because the Missouri Compromise said so

Which option below made the Civil War about keeping or ending slavery?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Declaration of Independence

• Election of Abraham Lincoln