Reconstruction POP QUIZ

Which of the following reversed the Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

• The Dawes Act

• The Fourteenth Amendment

• The Compromise of 1877

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which of these describes a result of the Thirteenth Amendment?

• A. African Americans in the North could vote.

• B. State governments were required to protect individual rights.

• C. Former Confederate officials were prohibited from holding elected office.

• D. African Americans in the South could move elsewhere.

The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to —

• establish legal requirements for the education of former slaves

• mandate fair labor contracts between African American workers and plantation owners

• abolish the institution of slavery

• protect the voting rights of African American men

How did southern states respond to the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment?

• By creating a segregated public education system

• By shutting down all remaining offices of Freedmen’s Bureau

• By imposing requirements designed to deny African Americans the right to vote

• By forcing African Americans to work as tenant farmers and sharecroppers

The measures in this list are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the —

• Compromise of 1850

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Dred Scott v. Sandford decision

How did President Lincoln succeed in permanently abolishing the practice represented by the tree in this cartoon?

• By ordering the use of popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery

• By encouraging an armed rebellion of slaves in the South

• By promoting the passage and ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment

• By helping abolitionists fund the Underground Railroad

What amendment is shown?

• 15

• 14

• 12

• 13

Match the following

• guarantees citizenship for US born

• 14th Amendment

• prohibits slavery

• 15th Amendment

• guarantees the right to vote

• 13th Amendment