Reconstruction STAAR Review

A historian is writing an article fr a history website. The article is divided into the following topics. Which era in U.S. history is the focus of this article?

• The Jacksonian era

• The antebellum era

• The Federalist era

• The Reconstruction era

What is the historical significance of this act?

• It was the first time Congress voted to overrule a president.

• It represented a shift in federal power after the impeachment of President Johnson.

• It was the first time Congress passed a law that protected racial minorities.

• It represented the failure of northern abolitionists to influence Reconstruction policies.

The election of Hiram Rhodes Revels in 1870 was significant because he was the first African American to -

• win an election as a member of the Democratic Party

• win a majority of the popular vote in Mississippi

• serve as a member of the U.S. Senate

• run for public office in the South

After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to -

• punish plantation owners for the use of slavery

• support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South

• promote the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau

• limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment

What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

• Agricultural workers organized labor unions.

• Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt.

• Many agricultural workers moved to cities to states small businesses.

• Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves.

The list describes conditions found in -

• California during the Gold Rush

• Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812

• western territories after the U.S. - Mexican War

• Southern states at the beginning of Reconstruction.

Southern states passed the codes described in this excerpt in order to -

• limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments

• increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North

• decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress

• improve relations with the Democratic Party.

One effect of the Dawes Act was that it -

• caused many American Indian tribes to create written constitutions

• provided education to American Indians through locally run schools

• limited the voting rights of American Indians

• harmed the communal structure of American Indian Society

Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?

• The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The positions taken in the Know-Nothing Party platform

• The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War.

• The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation

Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?

• African American families divided by slavery were reunited

• Newly free man and women moved west to claim land.

• African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election

• Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship