September 23

Study for Thursday's Quiz/Test (Quest):

Review Questions
1) The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution protects
a) African Americans’ right to vote b) the denial of constitutional privileges to citizens without due process of law c) the institution of slavery d) the right to privacy

2)The literacy test
a) was put into effect as part of the Fifteenth Amendment b) had no impact on African Americans’ voting rights in the South c) restricted African Americans’ voting rights in the South d) supported African Americans’ voting rights in the South

3)The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was called
a) amnesty b) war spoils c) Reconstruction d) Freedman’s Bureau

4)President Abraham Lincoln was shot at
a) the White House b) Ford’s Theater c) Andrew Johnson’s house d) William Peterson’s House

5) To many freed men and women, slavery was reestablished in what disguise?
a) slave codes b) literacy tests c) taxes d) black codes

6) By the 1890s, the Southern states passed Jim Crow laws in order to?
a) give equal rights to African Americans b) create a segregated society c) make sure slavery never took hold again d) increase cotton production

7) Having a strong loyalty to a particular region of the country is known as
a) stateism 2) loyalism 3) secessionism 4) sectionalism

8)Which of the following statements about the Civil Rights Act of 1866 is correct?
a) It granted full citizenship to African Americans b) It denied the federal government the power to protect African Americans’ rights. C) It gave states the right to pass black codes. D) It upheld the Treaty of Paris

9) Most former Confederates were pardoned by the a) Confederate Act b) Amnesty Act c) Fifteenth Amendment d) Fourteenth Amendment

10) Republicans in Congress easily overrode Johnson’s vetoes and took charge of Reconstruction during
a) Radical Reconstruction b) Restoration c) Congressional reconstruction d) Radical rebuilding