Unit 4 Review-Reconstruction & Westward Expansion

Which heading best completes the partial outline below? I.______________________________________________ A. Freedmen's Bureau B. Passage of the 14th amendment C. Military occupation of the South

Elements of Reconstruction

Inexpensive Land Offers to encourage people to move out west meant that

More Native American Indians on the Great Plains were forced onto reservations.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. 14th Amendment - Section 1. Which of the following groups most directly advocated for this amendment?

Radical Republicans

What was a result of the disputed presidential election of 1876?

Reconstruction ended as federal troops were removed from the South

Federal Land Grants $$ to Railroads

The federal government promoted transcontinental railroad construction.

Native American children were forced to go to Indian Schools where they were stripped of their Indian culture, language and customs. This was because of the

US sending people and railroads westward into Indian terriitory.

"These brutish Northern Republicans say they are here to help rebuild the South but we know the truth; they are here to help themselves to our money!" - A Southerner in 1866 Which of the following persons is being described in the quote above?

a carpetbagger

Slavery throughout the United States was permanently abolished by the

adoption of the 13th amendment to the Constitution

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

deny suffrage (voting) rights to African Americans

"That the master of any vessel who shall knowingly bring within the United States on such vessel, and land or permit to be landed any Chinese laborer, from any foreign port or place, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each and every such Chinese laborer so brought, and and may be also imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year. Section 2, Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882 Passage of this legislation was mainly a response to

economic and race-based opposition to immigrants in the western United States

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

granting basic rights to formerly enslaved persons

After the Civil War, the purpose of adding the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution was to

guarantee African Americans equal treatment under the law

A primary reason for the passage of the 14th amendment in 1868 was to

guarantee citizenship rights to the newly freed slaves

Which action was an attempt by southern state governments after the Civil War to limit the rights of African Americans?

implementation of the Black Codes

Literacy tests and grandfather clauses were enacted in the South after the Reconstruction Era primarily to

limit the number of African American voters

All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. 14th Amendment - Section 1. - This amendment was adopted in 1868 primarily to

protect the rights of formerly enslaved persons

The Compromise of 1877 brought an end to Radical Reconstruction by providing for the

removal of federal troops from Southern states

President Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction after the Civil War included

reuniting the nation as quickly as possible

After the Civil War, the most common occupations for freedmen were

sharecroppers and tenant farmers

The poll tax, the literacy test, and the actions of the Ku Klux Klan were all attempts to limit the effectiveness of

the 14th and 15th amendments

After the Civil War, a significant cause of the conflict between President Andrew Johnson and the Radical Republicans in Congress was disagreement over

the plans for restoring Southern states to the Union

After the Civil War, which development limited economic opportunities for African Americans in the South?

use of the sharecropping system

During the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877), the 15th amendment was adopted to grant African Americans

voting rights

In the Compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction, Republicans agreed to

withdraw federal troops from the South