Fall semester review
What is the purpose of the Reconstruction Amendments in general?
What does the 13th Amendment do?
What does the 14th Amendment do?
What does the 15th Amendment do?
What is the purpose of the Black Codes?
What is the purpose of Jim Crow laws?
Give three examples of Jim Crow laws or Black Codes.
What was the outcome of the Supreme Court Case Plessy vs. Ferguson?
What was the outcome of the Supreme Court Case Brown vs. the Board of Education?
What were the “Freedom Riders” protesting?
Who was Cesar Chavez? What group did he organize?
What law made voters’ literacy tests illegal?
What groups did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protect?
In what ways does the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protect those groups?
What civil rights leader is most associated with non-violent resistance?
What is the rationale behind non-violent resistance?
Who were the four “biggest” business leaders during the Gilded Age of
Industrialization and what industry did they dominate?
What makes business leaders during Industrialization of the late 1800s a “captain of
industry”? /a “robber baron”?
What is a monopoly and what methods or strategies did business leaders use to
create monopolies?
How did monopolies affect immigrants and the general population?
What was the motivation of labor unions?
What methods and strategies did labor unions use to accomplish their goals? How
effective were they?
What was the government’s role in business during the Gilded Age?
What was the reason for unlimited immigration during the late 1800s and early
1900s?
Why was there so much migration from the rural areas of the west and the south?
Who were nativists and why was there a conflict between nativists and immigrants?
What were the arguments of the Anti-federalists?
Why was the Bill of Rights get added to the Constitution?
What rights does the First Amendment of the Constitution guarantee?
What was the major goal of Anti-federalists when they added the Bill of Rights to the
Constitution?
Before the outbreak of the Civil War what were abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison’s
goals for enslaved African Americans?
Why did parts of the south lay in ruins at the end of the Civil War?
What group of people temporarily gained power during the Reconstruction period?
What were the actual effects of the Emancipation Proclamation?
What was the Freedman’s Bureau created to do after the Civil War?
Many people argued against the amount of power given to Congress due to what
clause in the Constitution?
What were the consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? How did it affect the
Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?