1 and 10 are wrong.
I believe the others are right.
Can someone check my history questions? Please?
1) Republicans were responsible for the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which effectively nullified the Three-fifths Compromise. Why was this an issue of concern for Republicans?
A) because it meant that former Confederates were eligible to hold federal office
B) because it meant that the four million freed people in the South would now be counted in each
Southern state's congressional appointment
C) because it "threw down the gauntlet" and threatened southern Democrats
D) because Lincoln opposed it
My Answer~C
2) What was one significant economic reason why the South remained poor after Reconstruction?
A) the physical damage to the South that resulted from the Civil War.
B) the shortage of labor as freemen left plantations for northern factories
C) the high taxes imposed on the southern states as punishment for secession
D) the money printed by the Confederacy that led to inflation in the South
My Answer~A
3) How did the Freedmen's Bureau assist freed slaves in the South after the Civil War?
A) It helped them start small businesses.
B) It gave them each forty acres of land.
C) It set up a sharecropping system for them.
D) It created educational opportunities for them.
My Answer~D
4) Who benefited the most from the system of sharecropping that developed in the South?
A) the landowners
B) the workers
C) The landowners and workers benefited equally.
D) No one benefited; it was not a profitable system and quickly died out.
My Answer~A
5) Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.
“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, United States Constitution
This amendment was adopted in 1868 primarily to:
A) protect the rights of formerly enslaved persons
B) make it easier for immigrants to become citizens
C) extend suffrage to settlers on the Great Plains
D) require the federal government to pay the costs of Reconstruction"
My Answer~A
6) President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction after the Civil Wa) included
A) restoring the social conditions that existed before the war began
B) conducting trials for former Confederate leaders
C) destroying the economic and social power of the Southern planters
D) reuniting the nation as quickly as possible
My Answer~D
7) After the Civil War, freedmen in the South had difficulty improving their economic condition because
A) literacy for formerly enslaved persons was prohibited
B) migration of factory workers from Northern cities had created competition for jobs
C) the federal government confiscated their 40- acre grants
D) the system of sharecropping kept them in a cycle of poverty
My Answer~D
8) Starting in the 1870s, Jim Crow laws were enacted in Southern states as a means to
A) provide an education for formerly enslaved persons
B) protect the voting rights of formerly enslaved persons
C) enforce racial segregation
D )nsure equal protection under the law
My Answer~C
9) The most direct effect of poll taxes and literacy tests on African Americans was to
A) prevent them from voting
B) limit their access to public facilities
C) block their educational opportunities
D) deny them economic advancements
My Anwer~A
10) In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that
A) states may not secede from the Union
B) racial segregation was constitutional
C) slaves are property and may not be taken from their owners
D) all western territories should be open to slavery
My Answer~A
3 answers
3 is also wrong.
Well, actually it did try to provide for education for poor people in the South, but the primary purpose was economic aid, so 3 is not really wrong.