BIG QUIZ PLEASE HELP!! Which of the following was a major cause of the American Civil War? *
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Immigration
Slavery
Taxes
Foreign Invasion
This compromise was made prior to the outbreak of the Civil War in order to ease tensions over the issue of slavery in new territories. *
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California Compromise
New York Compromise
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Oregon Compromise
What were the two major areas in which the Northern States and Southern States differed? *
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Economy and Culture
Food Production and Culture
Transportation and Waterways
Language and Education
What are the black codes/Jim Crow Laws? *
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Laws meant to keep Native Americans from moving around the country
Rules that were only enforced after curfew
Unwritten rules in the South that restricted freed slave’s rights
Acts passed to help newly freed slaves
Voting laws were put against African Americans to prevent them to vote. Which of these was NOT a policy put in place in the south? *
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Poll Taxes
Citizenship Test
Grandfather Clause
Literacy Test
Use the excerpt to help answer the following question. “We thought we was goin’ to be richer than the white folk, ‘cause we was stronger and knowed how to work, and the whites didn’t and they didn’t have us to work for them anymore. But it didn’t turn out that way. We soon found out that freedom could make folks proud but it didn’t make ’em rich.”—Felix Haywood, former enslaved worker. What did Haywood think would happen after African Americans were emancipated? *
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African Americans would not really be free.
Whites would not be successful without enslaved Africans Americans to help them
African Americans would be less successful than their former white slaveholders
African Americans were destined to fail, free or enslaved
What 3 infamous words were spoken during the 1896 ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson? These 3 words allowed rapid racial segregation in the United States. *
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What was the largest flaw/problem of the Civil Rights Act of 1875? *
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It was written poorly and rarely enforced, allowing many loopholes
It did not enforce/said nothing about the three new amendments
African Americans fought against it, stating that it only helped white people
It did not require the Southern states to ratify it
After the war, Presidents Lincoln and Johnson wanted to *
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Reunite Quickly
Punish the South
Break up the United States
Put African Americans back into slavery
During the Reconstruction period, what protected whites to vote even if they were poor and illiterate (couldn't read)? *
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Poll taxes were cheaper for white voters
Grandfather clause allowed those who were able to vote before 1867 to vote again
There were different literacy tests for white people
There were only voting booths for white people
What are the three reconstruction amendments and what do they do? List all three and give their purpose. *
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Using the documents from the DBQ, argue whether Reconstruction was a success or a failure. Use at least two documents/resources from the DBQ. *