U.S History 1302 Midterm Exam and
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Wade-Davis Bill - Answer an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or
hold office for anyone who had fought for the Confederacy...Lincoln refused to sign this bill
thinking it was too harsh.
Freedman's Bureau - Answer 1865. The bureau's focus was to provide food, medical care,
administer justice, manage abandoned and confiscated property, regulate labor, and establish
schools to aid former slaves and the poor.
13th amendment - Answer 1865. Amendment abolishing and continually prohibiting slavery.
With limited exception, such as those guilty of committing a crime, it also prevents indentured
servitude.
14th Amendment - Answer An amendment to the U. S. Constitution passes in 1868 that
made all persons born or naturalized in the United States-including former slave-citizens of the
country.
Military Reconstruction Act - Answer 1867 the governments of the southern states using the
governments of the northern states as examples. It was also implemented to ensure that the
civil rights of the free blacks in the South
15th Amendment - Answer 1870, this amendment to the U. S. Constitution stated that
citizens could not be stopped from voting "on account of race, color, or previous condition of
servitude.
Carpetbaggers - Answer northern whites who moved to the south and served as republican
leaders during reconstruction
Ku Klux Klan - Answer a secret society of white Southerners in the United States, a secret
society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African
Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
Slaughterhouse Cases - Answer Group of cases resulting in one decision by the Supreme
, United States v. Cruikshank - Answer One of the first cases to deal with the 14th
Amendment. Armed white militia had attacked freed black men. The ruling was the 14th only
applied to what the state does and not what the individuals did. Blacks in the south were left to
the mercy of increasingly hostile state gov't, who did little to protect them
Black codes - Answer Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black
slaves
Sharecropping - Answer system in which landowners leased a few acres of land to
farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops
Jim Crow Laws - Answer The "separate but equal" segregation laws state and local laws
enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and enforced between 1876 and
1965
Pacific Railroad Act - Answer 1862 called for the construction of a railroad and telegraph line
from the Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean
Treaty of Fort Laramie - Answer 1851. Sioux Indians agreed to live on reservations along the
Missouri River in exchange for the traveling of the settlers which were supposed to pay the
Indians 50,000 for 50 years but never payed.The federal government promised this land would
be theirs forever.
Sand creek Massacre - Answer 1864, an attack on a village of Cheyenne Indians by US
militiamen on 29 November 1864 that resulted in the death of more than 200 tribal members.
Grant's Peace Policy - Answer Indians had to accept English, Christianity, individual
ownership of land, allegiance to US, era of treaties was over.
Second Treaty of Fort Laramie - Answer the treaty acknowledging U.S. defeat in the Great
Sioux War in 1868 and guaranteed the Sioux perpetual land and hunting rights in South Dakota,
Wyoming, and Montana.
Battle of Little Bighorn - Answer 1876 battle in which Sioux and Cheyenne killed an entire
force of U.S. troops. Worst US army defeat in the long Plains Indian War.
Correct Answers Latest 2025-2026
Updated.
Wade-Davis Bill - Answer an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or
hold office for anyone who had fought for the Confederacy...Lincoln refused to sign this bill
thinking it was too harsh.
Freedman's Bureau - Answer 1865. The bureau's focus was to provide food, medical care,
administer justice, manage abandoned and confiscated property, regulate labor, and establish
schools to aid former slaves and the poor.
13th amendment - Answer 1865. Amendment abolishing and continually prohibiting slavery.
With limited exception, such as those guilty of committing a crime, it also prevents indentured
servitude.
14th Amendment - Answer An amendment to the U. S. Constitution passes in 1868 that
made all persons born or naturalized in the United States-including former slave-citizens of the
country.
Military Reconstruction Act - Answer 1867 the governments of the southern states using the
governments of the northern states as examples. It was also implemented to ensure that the
civil rights of the free blacks in the South
15th Amendment - Answer 1870, this amendment to the U. S. Constitution stated that
citizens could not be stopped from voting "on account of race, color, or previous condition of
servitude.
Carpetbaggers - Answer northern whites who moved to the south and served as republican
leaders during reconstruction
Ku Klux Klan - Answer a secret society of white Southerners in the United States, a secret
society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African
Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
Slaughterhouse Cases - Answer Group of cases resulting in one decision by the Supreme
, United States v. Cruikshank - Answer One of the first cases to deal with the 14th
Amendment. Armed white militia had attacked freed black men. The ruling was the 14th only
applied to what the state does and not what the individuals did. Blacks in the south were left to
the mercy of increasingly hostile state gov't, who did little to protect them
Black codes - Answer Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black
slaves
Sharecropping - Answer system in which landowners leased a few acres of land to
farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops
Jim Crow Laws - Answer The "separate but equal" segregation laws state and local laws
enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and enforced between 1876 and
1965
Pacific Railroad Act - Answer 1862 called for the construction of a railroad and telegraph line
from the Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean
Treaty of Fort Laramie - Answer 1851. Sioux Indians agreed to live on reservations along the
Missouri River in exchange for the traveling of the settlers which were supposed to pay the
Indians 50,000 for 50 years but never payed.The federal government promised this land would
be theirs forever.
Sand creek Massacre - Answer 1864, an attack on a village of Cheyenne Indians by US
militiamen on 29 November 1864 that resulted in the death of more than 200 tribal members.
Grant's Peace Policy - Answer Indians had to accept English, Christianity, individual
ownership of land, allegiance to US, era of treaties was over.
Second Treaty of Fort Laramie - Answer the treaty acknowledging U.S. defeat in the Great
Sioux War in 1868 and guaranteed the Sioux perpetual land and hunting rights in South Dakota,
Wyoming, and Montana.
Battle of Little Bighorn - Answer 1876 battle in which Sioux and Cheyenne killed an entire
force of U.S. troops. Worst US army defeat in the long Plains Indian War.
