Unit 4 Test 8th Grade

Which statement best completes the statement?

Jim Crow laws are passed in the South -------> ??

• The Freedmen's Bureau becomes more powerful.

• African Americans are separated from white communities.

• The Ku Klux Klan is forced to disband and identify its leaders.

• State governments in the South become controlled by Republicans.

What was a major similarity between Abraham Lincoln's and Andrew Johnson's plans for Reconstruction?

• Both plans created strong programs to protect African American rights.

• Both plans strictly limited the federal government's power over the states.

• Both plans avoided harshly punishing the South following the Civil War.

• Both plans established martial law throughout Southern territories.

How did elections over the status of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska lead to major conflicts?

• Abolitionists encouraged uprisings of enslaved people to stop the elections from taking place.

• White mobs attacked African Americans attempting to vote in the elections.

• Supporters and opponents of slavery both tried to influence the elections.

• Supporters of slavery destroyed nearly every ballot cast in the elections.

The decision to allow the 1854 elections to determine the status of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska resulted in:

• proslavery and antislavery groups fighting to influence the elections.

• abolitionists encouraging uprisings of enslaved people throughout the territories.

• Southern leaders refusing to acknowledge Kansas or Nebraska as states.

• the Supreme Court legalizing slavery throughout the United States.

During the Civil War, both the Union and Confederacy relied on women to:

• act as spies in enemy territory.

• create new types of battle plans.

• captain ships in the Atlantic Ocean.

• serve in high-ranking political positions.

What was a major effect of the decision to allow the 1854 elections to determine the status of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska?

• Violent conflicts broke out between supporters and opponents of slavery.

• Formerly enslaved people were able to vote in state elections for the first time.

• Southern states refused to recognize Kansas and Nebraska as states.

• Abolitionists encouraged uprisings of enslaved people across both Kansas and Nebraska.

Stephen Douglas argued in favor of which position in his 1858 debate with Abraham Lincoln?

• Slavery is morally wrong and contradicts basic American ideals.

• The South should be allowed to secede and form its own country.

• The federal government should have more power over the states.

• States should have the right to decide whether to allow slavery.

Southern states began to secede from the United States following Abraham Lincoln's election because:

• they worried that Lincoln was a threat to the system of slavery.

• they claimed that Stephen Douglas had won the election.

• they thought Lincoln would get rid of federal tariffs.

• they blamed Lincoln for supporting uprisings of enslaved people in the South.

In the Dred Scott v. Sandford case, the Supreme Court ruled that:

• enslaved people had the right to sue citizens in federal courts.

• publicly calling for an end to slavery was illegal under federal law.

• states had the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery.

• the federal government could not pass laws limiting slavery.

Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson both proposed Reconstruction plans that:

• harshly punished the South for causing the Civil War.

• established martial law in the former Confederacy.

• limited the federal government's power in the South.

• required the South to accept the end of slavery.