US History Unit 1 Review

Which event best completes this timeline?

• Naval blockade of the South

• Election of Abraham Lincoln

• 13th Amendment abolishes slavery

• First enslaved persons arrive from Africa

How did the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act contribute to the later outbreak of the Civil War?

• It allowed enslaved persons in Kansas to buy their freedom.

• It encouraged abolitionists by halting the spread of slavery into Kansas and New Mexico.

• It emancipated all slaves living in Kansas and Nebraska, causing resentment in the South.

• It reopened the question of whether slavery would be permitted in some Northern territories.

Which group would have been most likely to support the resolution in the image shown here?

• abolitionists

• slaveholders

• factory owners

• Southern Democrats

Which phrase completes the table?

• Most of the freedmen migrated to the North.

• Most freedmen became factory laborers.

• Freedmen were given their own lands as compensation for slavery.

• Freedmen became sharecroppers and tenants on lands owned by former slaveholders.

Which name was given to Northerners who came South during the Reconstruction era, often to help the freedmen or to find new economic opportunities?

• scalawags

• sectionalists

• debt peonage

• carpetbaggers

What was the main goal of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1860s and 1870s?

• to help freedmen to register to vote in state and federal elections.

• to terrorize freedmen so that they would not exercise their new rights.

• to collect contributions for white Southerners about to lose their farms.

• to provide an alternative to the Democratic and Republican parties in the South.

How did the Radical Republican program for Reconstruction differ from the plans of President Lincoln and President Johnson?

• Radical Republicans wanted to pardon former Confederate leaders.

• Radical Republicans wanted freedmen to migrate to Canada or Liberia.

• Radical Republicans imposed a civil rights act and military occupation.

• Radical Republicans denied that freedmen should be given equal rights.

How did Lincoln’s views in this passage differ from those of the Radical Republicans in Congress?

• Lincoln believed that Southerners must be severely punished.

• Lincoln urged that Confederate leaders be permanently barred from public office.

• Lincoln recommended that Union forces occupy the South until the freedmen received their full rights.

• Lincoln thought Southerners should be readmitted into the Union after satisfying minimal requirements.

Which act of Congress overturned Southern Black Codes, affirmed the rights of the freedmen, and formed the basis for the 14th Amendment?

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Homestead Act of 1862

• Freedmen’s Bureau Act of 1865

• Military Reconstruction Act of 1867

Which amendment guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race or former condition of servitude?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th