Founding Documents and Skills Review

The 15th Amendment to the U.S.Constitution extended government protections of —

• Voting rights
• Free Speech Rights
• Due process rights
• The rights of the accused

Which of the following protected the voting rights of all male citizens, regardless of their race, color, or having been a slave?

• Black Codes
• Thirteenth Amendment
• Fourteenth Amendment
• Fifteenth Amendment

Which of the following abolished slavery in the United States?

• Black Codes
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Which of the following prevented states from denying rights and privileges to any U.S. citizen?

• Black Codes
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Which term describes men and women who had been slaves?

• Scalawags
• Freedmen
• Carpetbaggers
• Indentured Servants

In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court made a ruling that upheld legal segregation for more than another half of a century. Which of the following best describes the decision?

• It was illegal to segregate people by race, except in places of travel.
• It was legal to segregate people by race, so long as facilities were “Separate, but equal.”
• It was illegal to segregate people by race, except for in the case of schools.
• It was illegal to segregate people by race, because “the Constitution is color blind”

Which option below explains the 14th Amendment?

• The law ended slavery.
• The law asserted that former slaves would receive equal legal protection.
• The law excluded wealthy plantation owners in the South from government leadership.
• The law created social programs for the former slaves.

Sources that give a second hand account of events are called:

• Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources
• Objective Sources
• Primary Source Documents

Use your knowledge of research methods to identify the factor that historians consider whether a source is credible.

• The author's qualifications

• The employment status of the author

• Whether the information matches the reader's preconceived notions

• The interest level of the information given

Historians use many different sources of information to make sense of past events. They research in order to find multiple sources give similar accounts of those events. Which of the terms below best identifies that process?

• Bias
• Objectivity
• Corroboration
• Contextualization