Unit 10 (STAAR)

The measures in this list are examples of ways Southern States weakened the effects of the-

• Compromise of 1850

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Dred Scott v. Sandford Decision

Which of the following best completes this list?

• Established schools

• Certified applications for political office

• Granted small-business loans

• Provide funds for farming supplies

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

• punish planation owners for the use of Slavery

• support Radical Reconstruction objective of the Freedmen's Bureau

• promote the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau

• Limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment

What was the main cause of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in 1868?

• His opposition to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment

• His refusal to investigate reported criminal activity by the Union army during the Civil War

• His opposition to Radical Reconstruction policies for former Confederate States

• His refusal to use the Homestead Act to redistribute land to former slaves

This political cartoon comments on events that occurred during the -

• Reconstruction era

• Age of Jackson

• Second Great Awakening

• War of 1812

How did the Freedmen's Bureau most assist in the Reconstitution of the South?

• By dividing large plantations and redistributing the property to former slaves

• By creating a militia to help enforce the voting rights of former salves

• By offering legal assistance and public schooling to former slaves

• By petitioning the government to offer money to former slaves

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

How did southern states respond to the ratification of the fifteenth amendment?

• By creating a segregated public eduction system

• By shutting down all remaining offices of Freedmen's Bureau

• By imposing requirements designed to deny African American the right to vote

• By forcing African Americans to work as tenant farmer and sharecroppers

What is the "great act" referred to by Senator Sumner in this excerpt?

• The Senate's readmission of the last Confederate state

• The addition of Hiram Rhodes Revel to the U.S. Senate

• The Senate's acquittal of President Andrew Johnson

• The election of the first woman to the U.S. Senate

Which correctly completes the graphic?

• Bill of Rights

• Missouri Compromise

• Black Codes

• Thirteenth Amendment