EOC Pre-test 1

The Kansas-Nebraska Act concerned which issue?

• the right of Northerners to own slaves

• the sale of federal lands to slave owners

• the expansion of slavery into new territories

• the return of slaves who had escaped from the South

Which of these was a direct consequence of the Civil War?

• the disintegration of the Whig Party

• the addition of new states to the Union

• the use of popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery

• the extension of voting rights to African American men

What was the main accomplishment of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• providing aid and education to emancipated slaves

• helping Confederate states get readmitted to the Union

• securing protections for African Americans' voting rights

• preventing violence against African Americans in the South

The passage below is an excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment:

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the

United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of

law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

This amendment was proposed by Congress in response to which of the following?

• the rise of violence against emancipated slaves

• the passage of Black Codes throughout the South

• the emergence of white resistance to the civil rights movement

• the attempts of Democrats to limit the voting rights of African Americans

What was the main effect of the system of debt peonage that emerged in the South during the late 19th

century?

• African Americans were unable to afford to work agricultural jobs.

• African Americans left the South in large numbers to escape their debts.

• African Americans labored in a system that was nearly the same as slavery.

• African Americans had to work for low wages to pay off their emancipation costs.

The excerpt below was printed in a magazine in the South in 1866:

We should be satisfied to compel them to engage in coarse, common manual labor, and to punish them

for dereliction of duty or non fulfillment of their contracts with such severity, as to make them useful,

productive laborers.

Which of the following would the author of this excerpt most likely have supported?

• the formation of the Freedmen's Bureau

• the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment

• the passage of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws

• the relocation of emancipated slaves to colonies in Africa

Which of the following was the main reason that the federal government created a method for Native

Americans to become U.S. citizens?

• to reduce the amount of money spent supporting Native Americans

• to encourage Native Americans to assimilate into mainstream society

• to undermine the legal basis of the treaties made with Native American tribes

• to guarantee that Native Americans enjoyed constitutionally protected civil rights

What was the main purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887?

• to ensure the spread of manufacturing across the frontier

• to remove import taxes for goods shipped from one state to another

• to protect American agriculture and industry from foreign competition

• to prevent railroads from charging farmers and merchants high shipping rates

This quote is from Farmer's Alliance member Mary Elizabeth Lease in the late 1800s:

"The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians

said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us,

starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside

by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government

pays its debts to us."

Based on this quote, with which statement would Lease agree?

• Although slavery has been abolished in this country, African Americans still find themselves held in

  bondage.

• Greater control over large corporations will help agricultural workers reclaim their livelihood and

  regain their financial footing.

• Farmers produce more food than the population can handle, but they are not permitted to sell their

  surpluses to other markets.

• Although child labor is a severe problem in the country, government leaders have done nothing to

  prevent children from working.

Which entrepreneur had a significant impact on the cosmetics industry?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Emily Dickinson

• Sojourner Truth

• Madame C.J. Walker