5th Grade - Pre-test First Nine Weeks

Look at the drawing of a scene from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Then answer the question that follows. Based on the drawing and your knowledge of social studies, what did Stowe hope to achieve by publishing Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• She wanted to help people understand the horrors of slavery and to fight to end the practice of it.

• She wanted to convince people that all Northerners were kind.

• She wanted to convince people to continue to practice slavery.

• She wanted to help people understand the economic importance of slavery.

Why did the Southern states have trouble recovering after the Civil War? Select all that apply.

• Most Southern farms and plantations were destroyed.

• European countries refused to buy cotton from Southern states.

• Many Southern farms and plantations were destroyed, plantation owners had mainly used slave labor, and the Union Army destroyed railroads and bridges in the South.

• The federal government refused to provide aid to needy Southerners.

What factors prevented the Freedmen's Bureau from accomplishing its goals?

• the redirection of resources to the settlement of the West.

• the passage of Jim Crow laws in Southern states and violence directed toward African Americans in the South

• refusal of American Indians to leave their homelands

• a federal prohiition on the practice of sharecropping

What was the MAIN reason that the South built more factories following the Civil War?

• European demand for American cotton decreased

• A lot of Southern farmland was destroyed during the war

• Northern demands for manufactured goods increased dramatically

• Reconstruction laws banned former slaveholders from owning farms.

The Civil War happened largely because states believed state governments had which rights?

• the right to allow women to vote in elections

• the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery

• the right to withdraw from the United States and whether or not to allow slavery

• the right to force American Indians out of their states

Which military leader was part of the Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War?

• Robert E. Lee

• Thomas Jackson

• William Sherman

• Ulysses S. Grant

Which constitutional amendment, or amendments are these statements part of?

Statement 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

Statement 2: [N]or shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property[.]

• Both are in the 13th Amendment

• Both are in the 14th Amendment

• Statement 1 is in the 14th Amendment and Statement 2 is in the 15th Amendment

• Statement 1 is in the 13th Amendment and Statement 2 is in the 14th Amendment

In 1863, during the third year of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Which of the following correctly describes the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• to grant the right to vote to women

• to free all slaves in the United States

• to take away the right to vote from slaveholders

• to free all slaves in states in revolt against the United States

Which of the following is NOT a way that African Americans in the South were prevented from voting during Reconstruction

• applying poll taxes

• hiding voting locations

• using threats and violence

• requiring reading test

Other than freed African Americans, which other group did the Freedmen's Bureau aid

• injured Union soldiers

• poor Southern whites

• recent immigrants

• disabled Confederates