Unit 2 reading test

How was slavery abolished in the united states

• it was apart of a treaty that was signed to end the civil war

• the thirteenth amendment was passed

• Individual states passed black codes to abolish slavery.

• The national Abolition Act was passed in 1865.

The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were passed

• shortly before the Civil War began

• during the Civil War

• shortly after the Civil War ended

• in the mid-1900s

Southern states used poll taxes and literacy tests to keep African Americans from voting.

• True

• False

The Seventeenth Amendment gave Americans a greater voice in their government by

• allowing people to directly elect senators.

• allowing people to directly elect members of the House of Representatives.

• allowing people to directly elect the president.

• allowing people to directly elect governors.

Which amendment gave people the right to elect senators directly?

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Seventeenth Amendment

• Seventeenth Amendment

• Twenty-first Amendment

In 1964, the Twenty-fourth Amendment helped fulfill the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) by

• outlawing poll taxes in national elections.

• establishing the NAACP as a government agency.

• allowing women to run for office as well as vote.

• enabling voters in all states to elect senators directly.

For many years, people between the ages of 18 and 21 were allowed to fight in the military but not allowed to vote.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Women were granted the right to vote by the

• Sixteenth Amendment

• Seventeenth Amendment

• Eighteenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were written and ratified because

• the NAACP insisted that discrimination against African Americans must end.

• the Thirteenth Amendment had not guaranteed the full rights of former enslaved persons.

• the Thirteenth Amendment had gone too far in supporting “Jim Crow” laws.

• African American soldiers had not been paid for their military service.

What did the Nineteenth Amendment accomplish?

• It freed enslaved persons and outlawed slavery and other forced labor.

• It guaranteed equal rights for all United States citizens.

• It guaranteed women the right to vote.

• It extended the right to vote to people between 18 and 21.