SAVVAS Test Bank 6 (7th Grade)

What is the author’s main purpose for writing Passage 1?

• to show that formerly enslaved people did not gain freedom during Reconstruction

• to show how Southern states aided formerly enslaved people during Reconstruction

• to show how much the lives of formerly enslaved people improved during

  Reconstruction

• to show that Frederick Douglass did not help formerly enslaved people during

  Reconstruction

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In what way do the headings in Passage 1 help readers?

• Readers can clearly recognize the time order of the article.

• Readers can more easily memorize all the information in the article.

• Readers can skim the headings to find where to read more closely.

• Readers can learn all the information without reading any paragraphs.

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Part A

Based on the information in Passage 1, what can the reader infer about President Johnson?

• He did not agree with President Lincoln’s views.

• He did not support the states that had left the Union.

• He helped formerly enslaved people by giving them jobs.

• He hoped to be elected president for a second term.

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Which sentence from Passage 1 supports the answer in Part A?

• “Johnson’s main goal was to bring the states that had left the Union back into the fold.”

  (paragraph 2)

• “He feared that if he supported black equality, Southern Democrats would not support

  him.” (paragraph 2)

• “Southern legislatures passed laws that were designed to limit the freedom of formerly

  enslaved people.” (paragraph 3)

• “In 1867, President Johnson asked Douglass to head up the Freedmen’s Bureau.”

  (paragraph 6)

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Read this dictionary entry for the word denial.

denial (dih NY uhl) n. 1. refusal to admit the truth 2. refusal to accept responsibility 3.

refusal to acknowledge the existence 4. refusal to grant or provide

What is the best definition of denial as it is used in this sentence from Passage 1?

“The denial of education and wages during slavery ensured they had no support as they

began their lives as free people.” (paragraph 4)

• refusal to admit the truth

• refusal to accept responsibility

• refusal to acknowledge the existence

• refusal to grant or provide

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Based on Passage 2, what can readers conclude is one reason the Emancipation

Proclamation did not free all enslaved people?

• Freedom for enslaved people depended on the approval of both the House and the

  Senate.

• Lincoln did not intend the Emancipation Proclamation to free any enslaved people.

• The Emancipation Proclamation was issued before the North won the Civil War.

• The House of Representatives did not pass a measure supporting freedom.

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Read this sentence from Passage 2.

“The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution formally abolished slavery in

the United States.” (paragraph 11)

What does the word abolished mean in this sentence?

• allowed

• avoided

• ended

• passed

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Read this excerpt from Passage 2.

“Ratified in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment increased the liberties and rights granted by

the Bill of Rights to formerly enslaved people. Two years later the Fifteenth Amendment was

ratified, giving African American men the right to vote.” (paragraph 12)

What does the word ratified mean as it is used in Passage 2?

• started

• canceled

• established

• discontinued

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Which statement describes Lincoln’s attitude toward the freedom of enslaved people?

• Lincoln felt enraged toward the freedom of enslaved people.

• Lincoln felt hopeless toward the freedom of enslaved people.

• Lincoln was persistent in his work for the freedom of enslaved people.

• Lincoln was lackadaisical in his work for the freedom of enslaved people.

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Which two central ideas are found in both passages?

• People who were newly free continued to suffer after Lincoln’s Emancipation

  Proclamation.

• Some Northerners and some Southern whites offered support and aid to formerly

  enslaved people.

• The North and the South continued to work against one another following the Thirteenth

  Amendment.

• The Thirteenth Amendment was only one step on the long journey toward freedom for

  formerly enslaved people.

• The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments worked together to establish the

  rights of African Americans.

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