Social Studies #2

Which event occurred as a result of ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment?

• Election of the first female senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton

• Election of the first American Indian senator, Robert Latham Owen

• Election of the first African American senator, Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Election of the first immigrant senator, George Washington Campbell

How did the 13th Amendment to the Constitution affect the population of the South?

• It set up Carpetbaggers who came South to administer justice.

• It provided citizenship with all of its protections for freed slaves.

• It allowed slaves the right to vote although they had little opportunity to do so.

• It freed slaves to search for employment as sharecroppers.

Despite limited success, the Freedmen's Bureau greatly contributed to —

• raising income levels of newly-freed enslaved people

• expanding education opportunities for newly-freed enslaved people

• redistributing plantation lands to newly-freed enslaved people and land owners

• forcing southern state governments to recognize the votes of newly-freed enslaved people

Use the excerpt to answer the question that follows.

What was the purpose of this section of the 14th Amendment?

• to change the method for electing candidates for public office

• to keep former Confederate officials from holding public office

• to make the legislative branch more effective by reducing its size

• to require elected officials to take an oath before being allowed to serve

What is the historical significance of this act?

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

• 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.

Which secret society of former Confederate soldiers used terrorism and murder to limit new opportunities for formerly enslaved African Americans after the Civil War?

• Red Shirts

• Ku Klux Klan

• White League

• Aryan Nations

The Ku Klux Klan was originally established for which purpose?

• to undermine African-American voting during Reconstruction

• to support immigration reform by proposing the Chinese Exclusion Act

• to aid the American Railway Union by inciting the Pullman Strike

• to subvert federal laws against speakeasies during Prohibition

Use the graphic to answer the question.

Which correctly completes the graphic?

• Bill of Rights

• Black Codes

• Missouri Compromise

• Thirteenth Amendment

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

This passage describes terms for what kind of economic transaction?

• the purchase of land through the Homestead Act

• a wage increase negotiated for workers by a labor union

• the seizure of a plantation owner’s land during Reconstruction

• a sharecropping arrangement between a landowner and former slave

What was the purpose and effect of grandfather clauses, poll taxes, and literacy tests imposed in the South after Reconstruction?

• to keep public facilities segregated

• to limit African American voting rights

• to shut down the sharecropping system

• to support American Indian reservations