Chapter One Review

Which Reconstruction amendment banned slavery in the United States?

• the 13th Amendment

• the 14th Amendment

• the 15th Amendment

• the 16th Amendment

Black codes were laws passed by Southern state legislatures to:

• limit African American rights

• recreate many of the oppressions of slavery

• neither A nor B

• both A and B

The Fifteenth Amendment passed in 1869 did which of the following:

• Guaranteed the right of African-American men to vote

• Protected the Civil Rights of all Americans

• Gave American women the right to vote

• Officially ended the American Civil War

The first African American to serve in the United States Senate was

• Samuel Tilden

• George C. Custer

• Hiram R. Revels

• Chief Joseph

President Lincoln argued for a policy of _______________ with regards to reconciling the South.

• radical reconstruction

• general amnesty

• black codes

• incorporation

After gaining their freedom, many African Americans were elected to serve in state governments. Most aligned themselves with the

• African Independence Party.

• Democratic Party.

• Free-Soil Party.

• Republican Party.

The Military Reconstruction Act stated that states would be readmitted when they ratified the

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Sixteenth Amendment

Who were the Redeemers?

• Southern Republicans bent on using political and violent methods to sustain control of southern state governments following the Civil War.

• Southern religious leaders who led a massive Baptist revival among Confederate soldiers wounded during the war.

• Northern pastors who traveled south to work and help southerners overcome the poverty that was rampant across the South following the war.

• Southern Democrats who wanted to regain control of southern state governments from radical Republicans and freedmen after the Civil War.

Which of the following was reportedly a part of the Compromise of 1877?

• The South would be divided into military districts.

• Troops would be removed from the South and Southern Democrats would regain control of southern state governments if Hayes won the presidential election.

• Troops would be removed from the South if Tilden won the presidential election.

• Southern Democrats agreed to accept black equality in exchange for allowing Rutherford B. Hayes to become president.

Threshing machines were used for

• clearing homesteads.

• harvesting wheat.

• improving irrigation.

• planting crops.