STAAR Questions 2 (Westward-Reconstruction)

Which region’s primary economic activity in 1861 was the cultivation of cotton?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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

• African American families divided by slavery were reunited

• Newly free men 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

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say—I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."

Who made this statement?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Harriet Tubman

• Phillis Wheatley

How did this invention contribute to the expansion of the plantation system?

• By reducing the number of slaves needed for growing cotton

• By increasing the time needed to cultivate cotton

• By increasing the profitability of slavery

• By reducing the demand for raw cotton

Which of these occurred during early U.S. industrialization?

• Manufacturers instituted a five-day workweek.

• Labor laws required factories to provide a safe working environment.

• Workers were required to attend schools to develop technical skills.

• Production of goods transitioned from homes to factories.

What was one reason James K. Polk won the presidential election of 1844?

• He was committed to fulfilling the goals of Manifest Destiny.

• He was against removing American Indians from their native lands.

• He favored the policy of popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.

• He opposed the extension of slavery west of the Mississippi River.

How did the growth of these organizations most affect the role of women in U.S. society?

• By providing economic opportunities for women in urban areas

• By expanding the participation of women in social reform

• By increasing the number of women teachers in rural areas

• By securing the establishment of private universities for women

Which of these correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?

• Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law.

• Unlike freedmen, escaped slaves were welcome in the gold mines of California.

• Members of both groups could be sold in Washington, D.C., slave markets

• Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession.

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

How did the loss of its control of the Mississippi River contribute to the defeat of the Confederacy?

• The river had provided direct access to the Union’s base of military operations

• Losing control of the river removed the physical barrier between slave and free states

• Losing control of the river divided the Confederacy in two and cut off its supplies

• The river had provided the Confederacy with a power source for factories and mills.