4.4 Test Review

The fifteenth Amendment guaranteed which of the following to blacks?

• freedom from slavery
• the status of citizenship
• the right to vote
• the right to education and land ownership

Which of the following ended slavery in the United States?

• 13th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• Emancipation Proclamation

Which of the following guaranteed citizenship and extended the Bill of Rights to state governments?

• Presidential Reconstruction
• 13th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 14th Amendment

Which of the following would be supported by the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?

• It is OK to have separate schools for blacks and whites, if both have qualified teachers
• It is illegal to separate people by race because it violates the spirit of the Constitution
• African Amercans cannot be denied the right to vote
• Segregation is not acceptable based on the US Constitution

Which of the following AA founded the Tuskegee Institute, believed that segregation was acceptable, and felt that AA would win the respect of whites if they leared a trade to gain economic independence?

• Frederick Douglass
• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Martin Luther King Jr.

Which of the following was an executive order that outlawed slavery in the South while still allowing slavery in states loyal to the Union?

• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Thirteenth Amendment
• The Lincoln Draft

Andrew is a freedmen living in Georgia during Reconstruction.  He wins a seat in the state legislature.  This is possible because of the _____.

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Fifteenth Amendment
• Nineteenth Amendment
• Voting Rights Act

In the post-Civil War era, the efforts of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois were attributed with advancing ____.

• the abolitionist movement
• an amendment to directly elect senators
• the power of the central gov't over the states
• the movement towards equality for African Americans

Following the Civil War, the passage of the Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws by Southern states all sought to 

• provide farmland for African Americans
• guarantee civil rights for AAs
• restrict the rights of AAs
• support the creation of the Freedmen's Bureau

The institution of slavery was formally abolished in the US by the

• ratification of the 14th Amendment
• Emancipation Proclamation
• creation of the Freedmen's Bureau in 1866
• ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865