Unit 3 Test

1. What was the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests imposed on African Americans?

• A. to prevent them from voting
• B. to limit their access to public facilities
• C. to block their educational opportunities
• D. to deny them economic advancements

2. What was the result of the disputed presidential election of 1876?

• A. Reconstruction ended as federal troops were removed from the South.
• B. Slavery was re-established in the South by state legislatures.
• C. New state laws were passed in the South to guarantee equal rights for African Americans.
• D. A constitutional amendment was adopted to correct problems with the electoral college system.

4. Which group was founded in 1909 under the leadership of W.E.B. Dubois to combat racial discrimination, racial violence, and segregation in the United States?

• A. The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
• B. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• C. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
• D. The Black Rights Coalition (BRC)

5. What was the purpose of Black Codes during Reconstruction?

• A. The codes were laws meant to protect the constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves.
• B. The codes were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans economically dependent on whites.
• C. The codes established educational standards for freedmen.
• D. The codes provided 40 acres and a mule to freedmen.

6. Review the image below. What event resulted in the image above?

• A. a rearrangement of the relationships between black and white people in the South.
• B. the North’s greater manpower and resources.
• C. the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.
• D. Lincoln’s decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

7. Which of these impacted the voting of southern African Americans after the Civil War? (Choose 3 that apply)

• A. violence and intimidation by angry whites
• B. ratification of the 15th Amendment
• C. Poll taxes and Literacy tests
• D. 13th and 14th Amendments

8. What did Abraham Lincoln declare, early in his presidency, as his primary goal as president?

• A. to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation
• B. to preserve the Union
• C. to end slavery throughout the entire country
• D. to encourage sectionalism

9. How did the southern states try to limit the effects of Radical Reconstruction after 1877? Choose 2

• A. by adopting federally-mandated segregation
• B. by enacting Jim Crow Laws
• C. by abolishing the southern sharecropping system
• D. by securing passage of new amendments to the Constitution

10. What was a significant reason why Radical Republicans opposed President Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan?

• A. Lincoln's plan granted too many rights to formerly enslaved persons.
• B. Lincoln's plan demanded payments from the South that would have damaged the South's economy
• C. Lincoln's plan postponed the readmission of southern states into the Union for many years
• D. Lincoln's plan would have allowed white southerners to quickly return to power.

11. Which Supreme Court decision created the need for a constitutional amendment that would grant citizenship to formerly enslaved persons?

• A. Dred Scott v. Sanford
• B. McCulloch v. Maryland
• C. Worcester v. Georgia
• D. Marbury v. Madison