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

A. by adopting federally-mandated segregation

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?

D. Lincoln's plan would have allowed white southerners to quickly return to power.

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

12. Why was the Emancipation Proclamation also viewed as a diplomatic document?

B. It made it hard for foreign nations to recognize and support the Confederacy.

A. It called on England and France to sell weapons to the Union army.

C. It warned European nations to stay out of affairs in the Western Hemisphere.

D. It encouraged France to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States.

13. Read the following quote and answer the question. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude...." 15th Amendment, Section 1, U.S. Constitution, 1870 Which action did southern states take to keep African Americans from exercising the rights guaranteed in this amendment?

B. collecting poll taxes and requiring literacy tests

A. suspending habeas corpus and denying women the right to vote

C. establishing religious and property-holding requirements for voting

D. passing black codes and establishing segregated schools

14. In the end, which of the following factors contributed to the South's defeat in the American Civil War?

C. The North had too many resources and too much manpower for the South to sustain its fight.

A. Although, the South had larger population, its leaders lacked the organization to effectively build an army.

B. The South could not overcome the superior miliary leadership possessed by the North.

D. Many stopped fighting for the South after they heard Lincoln had been killed.

15. What was one major result of the North's victory in the Civil War?

D. The supremacy of the national government was upheld.

A. The power of the Supreme Court was limited.

B. Slave owners were compensated for their losses.

C. The influence of corporations on government was reduced.

17. What was the significance of the 54th Massachusetts regiment during the Civil War?

D. The regiment gained respect and notoriety for African American soldiers who joined the Union.

A. The regiment defeated Union troops at Fort Sumter.

B. The regiment defended the Mississippi River at the Battle of Vicksburg.

C. The regiment achieved a Union victory during the first naval battle fought between ironclads.

21. What was a major result of the Civil War?

C. The ideas of nullification and secession were defeated.

A. The judiciary became the dominant branch of the federal government.

B. Congress passed an amendment to provide for the direct election of senators.

D. States were given the right to secede from the Union.

22. Which of the following was the primary reason for secession, the Civil War, and eventually the 13th Amendment?

C. the controversy over slavery as the nation moved west

A. the annexation of Texas into the Union

B. the popularity of the abolitionist movement

D. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

23. Which situation was the most immediate result of Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency in 1860?

D. Several southern states seceded from the Union.

A. Kansas and Nebraska joined the Union as free states.

B. A constitutional amendment was adopted to end slavery.

C. Missouri entered the Union as a slave state.

24. Which of these led to Northern suspicion that Southern interests had too much power in the federal government? (Choose 2 that apply)

D. the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case

A. the election of Abraham Lincoln

B. northern support and sympathy for John Brown

25. Review the graphic below. What does the graphic above represent?

B. the Union strategy during the Civil War

A. the difficulty in transporting goods throughout the United States

C. the problems created because the USA did not have a transcontinental railroad

D. the superiority of southern naval armaments during the Civil War

26. During Reconstruction, African Americans were elected to which of the following political offices?

D. President of the United States

27. What was the overall goal of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments?

To address issues related to slavery, civil rights, and suffrage after the Civil War

To establish a federal income tax system

To expand the powers of the federal government

D To regulate trade between states

What is the main idea of this cartoon from the Reconstruction Era?

A. Southern society was oppressed by Radical Republican policies.

B. Military force was necessary to stop southern secession.

C. United States soldiers forced women in the South to work in factories.

D. Sharecropping was an economic burden for women after the Civil War

How would W.E.B. DuBois respond to Washington's comments?

B. He would respond that African Americans were limited by vocational education.

A. He would agree that African Americans were destined to be farmers and carpenters.

C. He would warn that African Americans would not thrive in urban centers.

D. He would agree that African Americans should not consider higher education.

31. In the immediate years following the Civil War, how did most freedmen earn a living?

A. sharecropping on southern plantations

C. working in northern factories

D. conducting trains on the Underground Railroad

32. Read the following list: -Nullification crisis -Kansas-Nebraska Act -Dred Scott decision -Election of Lincoln(1860) Which category would best include all of these events?

D. causes of sectional conflict

B. government polices toward Native Americans

C. consequences of Manifest Destiny

33. Why was General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea" important to the Union’s war effort?

C. Important railroad tracks were destroyed, severing supply lines for Confederate forces.

A. It placed the Mississippi River under Union control.

B. It convinced Great Britain to stop supporting the Confederacy.

D. Ulysses S. Grant was forced to surrender his forces as a result of Sherman's victory.

34. Which of the following arguments did President Abraham Lincoln use against the secession of the southern states?

B. The government was a union of people and not of states.

C. The southern states did not permit their people to vote on secession.

D. As the commander-in-chief, he had the duty to defend the United States against foreign invasion.

35. To what did Abraham Lincoln's 1858 warning that "a house divided against itself cannot stand" refer?

B. the sectional differences over the issue of slavery

A. the treatment of Native American Indians

C. the funding for internal improvements

D. the treaties with other European nations

36. Use the quotes below to answer the question. "The slaveholding states will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the federal government will become their enemy...." ----SC legislature, Declaration of Causes of Secession, 1860 "The Union is older than any of these states, and, in fact, it created them as states." --Abraham Lincoln These quotes represent two sides in which important conflict in American history?

A. the conflict over states' rights and federal authority

B.the conflict over what level of representation small states should have in the federal legislature

C. the conflict over an amendment to the Constitution that would allow slavery in the territories

D. the conflict over whether or not to forcibly remove Native Americans from their lands in the West

37. In the first half of the 1800s, how was the political power of the South threatened? (Choose the 3 that apply.)

B. As the population of the North increased, northern states had more representation in the House of Representatives.

C. The North and West regions had a stronger relationship because of economic ties due to infrastructure such as the Erie Canal.

D. Increasing opposition to slavery in the North increased the importance of Southern representation in the Senate.

A. As social ties developed between the North and the West, African-Americans in the South began to vote in larger numbers.

E. After they gained the right to vote, women tended to vote against slavery, which was vital to the Southern economy.

38. How are Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Grimke Sisters all similar?

A. They all supported the abolitionist movement.

B. They all supported the passage of Black Codes.

C. They all supported the nullification theory of states' rights.

D. They all supported the plantation system in the South.

39. What effect did Uncle Tom’s Cabin and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry have on the South?

A. White Southerners increasingly distrusted the intentions of Northerners

B. Southerners gained seats in the US Congress.

C. Slavery was no longer an issue as new states were added to the Union.

D. Abolitionists in the South were be free to help runaway slaves.

40. What was the result of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of the Supreme Court in 1896?

B. de jure segregation was instituted

A. de facto segregation was instituted

C. immediate integration was instituted

D. gradual integration would eventually occur

Based on this image, What is one way in which the Federal Government sought to protect natural rights during Reconstruction?

A. The Freedman's Bureau helped to build schools to educate Freed peoples.

B. The 13th amendment required schools to be integrated "with all diliberate speed".

C. The Women's Auxillary Corps lead recruitment drives to rebuild the US Army.

D. The Department of the Interior helped to reunite seperated enslaved families.

43. What was a result of Henry Clay’s American System?

A. It strengthened economic ties between the North and the West.

B. It prevented the South from seceding and beginning the Civil War.

C. It united the North, South, and West economically and politically.

D. It strengthened economic ties between the South and the West.

44. Lincoln once stated, "I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky." Which of the following statements BEST explains his statement?

A. Lincoln had a strong desire to keep the border states in the Union.

B. Kentucky had already freed its slave prior to events at Fort Sumter.

C. Kentucky had the finest race horses in the Union.

D. Lincoln felt Kentucky was key to the success of the Anaconda Plan.

45. Which cause was promoted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?

D. the expansion of women's rights

C. exposing government corruption

47. The phrase "Bleeding Kansas" was used to describe violent clashes between which two groups?

A. proslavery and antislavery groups

B. Spanish landowners and new American settlers

C. Chinese and Irish railroad workers

D. Native Americans and white settlers

48. What was the significance of the 54th Massachusetts regiment during the Civil War?

A. The regiment gained respect and notoriety for African American soldiers who joined the Union.

B. The regiment achieved victory for the Union during the first naval battle fought between ironclads.

C. The regiment defended the Mississippi River at the Battle of Vicksburg.

D. The regiment defeated Union troops at Fort Sumter.

The above drawing, which appeared in the Tuscaloosa (Alabama) Independent Monitor in 1868, issued a stern warning to

B. slaves and "undesirable" immigrants

50. What were the rulings of the Dred Scott case? (Choose 3 that apply

B. Slaves were property of the owner.

D. Slavery could not be prohibited in the territories.

C. Slaves could not be taken from their owner without due process of law.

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

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

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

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.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

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)

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

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.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

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.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

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

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

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

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Unit 3 Test

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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