8th Social Studies Units 10-11 Review

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

Although many African Americans resided in free states in 1850, the Fugitive Slave Acts still affected free African Americans. This was because-

• the law placed a tax on all African Americans who had legally gained their freedom

• free African Americans were forced by the government to house fugitive slaves

• slave catchers working for profit used the law to kidnap and sell freed slaves

• the law required all freed slaves to wear a badge indicating their status

- I was from Illinois

- I was a member of the Republican Party.

- I became president of the United States

- I helped bring an end to slavery

Who am I?

• James Buchanan

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

Who was the supreme military leader of the Union army during the Civil War from 1864-1865?

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• William T. Sherman

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Which general surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House to end the Civil War?

• William Tecumseh Sherman

• George Pickett

• Robert E. Lee

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Who was the only person to serve as president of the Confederate States of America?

• Alexander Stephens

• John C. Calhoun

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

Which amendment protected African Americans' right to vote during Reconstruction?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Which of the following was implemented in the South to counteract the Fifteenth Amendment?

• The legal voting age was raised to 21.

• American Indians were allowed to vote.

• Literacy tests were administered at the polls.

• White women were extended the right to vote.

Which of the following outlawed the practice of slavery in the United States?

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The 13th Amendment

• The 15th Amendment

• The Enforcement Acts

Why did Congress want to impeach President Andrew Johnson?

• He favored imposing war reparations on the South in order to fund the repair of infrastructure.

• He favored more lenient Reconstruction policies than those favored by Radical Republicans.

• He favored the creation of the Freedmen's Bureau to assist freedmen and freedwomen in the South.

• He favored military occupation to ensure Southern governments enforced Reconstruction policies.