U.S history- Chapters 10&11 civil war and reconstruction review

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used in the South after 1890 to

Deny suffrage rights to African Americans

Many southern states tried to limit the effects of radical reconstruction by

Enacting Jim Crow laws

What did the Emancipation proclamation do?

Immediately freed all enslaved persons

Which situations was an immediate result of the United States civil war?

Secession was no longer regarded as an option to be exercised by the states

The solid south refers to the political situation in the post-Reconstruction South where:

The democreatic part was dominant

Which statement is a valid generalization about the experience of African Americans during the early Reconstruction period (1865-1870)?

They achieved legal rights through constitutional amendments

Before the Civil War, the principle of popular sovereignty was proposed as a means of:

deciding the legalization of slavery in a new state

What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution?

granting basic rights to formerly enslaved persons

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure Permanently half slave and half free." -Abraham Lincoln, 1858 According to this quotation, Abraham Lincoln believed that:

sectional differences threatened to destroy the Union

The basic constitutional issue resolved by the civil war was the

supremacy of Federal authority over the states