8th Grade Benchmark Q2 Practice

What were the tests used to restrict voting rights for African Americans in the South?

• Ten Percent Plan

• Freedmen's Bureau

• 15th Amendment

• Literacy Tests

Which clause allowed white voters to bypass literacy tests and other requirements for voting?

• Grandfather Clause

• Poll Tax

• Radical Republicans

• 13th Amendment

What was the name of the tax imposed on voters in order to limit African American voting rights?

• Grandfather Clause

• Poll Tax

• Radical Republicans

• 13th Amendment

Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Boomtown

Which amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Boomtown

Which amendment prohibited the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Boomtown

Which act provided free land to individuals willing to settle and improve the land in the West?

• Cattle Drive

• Homestead Act

• Boomtown

• Dawes Act

Farmers who lived in the Great Plains were called "sodbusters" because:

• cattle drives helped create roads

• the reservations were called that by Natives

• the Dawes Act referred to it that way

• the dense grass was difficult to plow

What were the designated areas of land set aside by the U.S. government for Native Americans?

• Cattle Drive

• Homestead Act

• Assimilation

• Reservations

What was the significance of the Supreme Court case Plessy v Ferguson (1896)?

• It declared segregation unconstitutional.

• It upheld the principle of "separate but equal" treatment.

• It abolished Jim Crow laws.

• It led to the desegregation of schools.