US History - Emancipation and Amendments Worksheet

The Three-Fifths Compromise resolved the issue of

• How many representatives each state would have in the Senate

• Whether Congress would have one or two houses

• How enslaved people were to be counted in the population

• Whether larger states could have more representatives in Congress

The Great Compromise

• allowed only for representation based on population

• expressed a grave need for an executive branch

• mandated that slavery be continued in all colonies

• allowed each state equal representation and representation based on population

Under popular sovereignty, the decision whether or not to allow slavery in a territory was made by:

• The President

• The Supreme Court

• Congress

• The voters of the territory

The Emancipation Proclamation addressed the status of

• Enslaved people living in the border states

• Enslaved people living in the Union states

• All enslaved people living in the United States

• Enslaved people living in areas controlled by the Confederacy

Congress drafted this amendment to the US Constitution guaranteeing citizenship and due process to all Americans, regardless of race.

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Sixteenth Amendment

This stated that no citizen may be denied the right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

Which amendment forbid slavery or involuntary servitude?

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Second Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

What was the main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• Make difficulties for veterans of the Civil War

• Promote former slaves supremacy over the whites in the South

• Provide basic needs such as food, education, and contract negotiations to newly freedmen and poor whites

• Help burn down schools and discourage former slaves from voting

In the 1860s, the Ku Klux Klan tried to keep:

• Blacks from voting in order to limit their power

• Plantation owners from voting so that power would return to the wealthy whites in the South

• Their sheets white with Spring Fresh Clorox

• The Radical Republicans in office in order to promote the rights of freedmen

Which of the following groups would be in favor of Jim Crow laws/Black Codes?

• Northern State Legislatures

• President Lincoln

• Radical Republicans

• Southern State Legislatures