Unit 3 - Topic 1 (Post-Civil War America) Post Assessment

This amendment was adopted in 1868 primarily to...

• protect the rights of formerly enslaved persons

• make it easier for immigrants to become citizens

• extend suffrage to settlers on the Great Plains

• require the federal government to pay the costs of Reconstruction

Which event was most likely a result of this amendment?

• The decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

• The passage of the 18th amendment in 1919

• The Dawes Act of 1887

• The rise of Populism in the late 19th century

Which of the following groups most directly advocated for this amendment?

• Democrats

• Radical Republicans

• Suffragists

• Progressives

What was the “mental darkness” referred to by the author?

• segregation in public facilities enforced by Jim Crow policies

• illiteracy of enslaved people caused by slave codes that banned enslaved people from learning to read and study

• the violent oppression perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan

• the growth of anti-racism in the South following the end of the Civil War

Which claim is best supported by the evidence in this document?

• Reconstruction governments were ineffective.

• Reconstruction governments were corrupt.

• Reconstruction governments focused on voting rights of freedmen.

• Reconstruction governments enacted progressive reforms.

Which statement is best supported by the information shown in the chart?

• African Americans were deprived of voting and political rights after Reconstruction ended.

• The size of legislatures shrank after 1876.

• African Americans left the South after 1876.

• African Americans lost interest in politics after 1876.

What was one way society responded to changes brought about by the situation depicted in the chart provided?

• The U.S. federal  government passed laws in the 1880s to protect African Americans’ voting rights.

• Most state governments passed laws in the 1880s to protect African Americans’ voting rights.

• Leaders such as W.E.B. DuBois founded the NAACP.

• The Supreme Court upheld segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).

Which Supreme Court case is this document most likely related to?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Korematsu v. United States

• United States v. Susan B. Anthony

• Worcester v. Georgia

In this 1896 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of

• the Three-fifths Compromise

• Jim Crow laws

• affirmative action programs

• racial integration

What was one action taken by the federal government to overturn this decision?

• The decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

• Ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment

• Passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Passing the Immigration Act of 1965