Founding Documents and Skills Review

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

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Voting rights

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Which amendment protected the voting rights of all male citizens, regardless of their race, color, or having been a slave? Options: Black Codes, Thirteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Fifteenth Amendment

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Fifteenth Amendment

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Which of the following abolished slavery in the United States? Options: Black Codes, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment

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13th Amendment

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Which of the following prevented states from denying rights and privileges to any U.S. citizen? Options: Black Codes, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment

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14th Amendment

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Which term describes men and women who had been slaves?

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Freedmen

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In Plessy v. Ferguson, what was the Supreme Court's ruling regarding legal segregation?

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It was legal to segregate people by race, so long as facilities were “Separate, but equal.”

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Which option below explains the 14th Amendment?

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The law asserted that former slaves would receive equal legal protection.

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

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Secondary Sources

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Identify the factor that historians consider to determine if a source is credible.

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The author's qualifications

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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? Options: Bias, Objectivity, Corroboration, Contextualization

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Corroboration