EOC Review Part 1

The Kansas-Nebraska Act concerned which issue?

• . the right of Northerners to own slaves

• the sale of federal lands to slave owners

• the expansion of slavery into new territories

• the return of slaves who had escaped from the South

Which of these was a direct consequence of the Civil War?

• the disintegration of the Whig Party

• the addition of new states to the Union

• the use of popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery

• the extension of voting rights to African American men

What was the main accomplishment of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• providing aid and education to emancipated slaves

• helping Confederate states get readmitted to the Union

• securing protections for African Americans' voting rights

• preventing violence against African Americans in the South

The passage below is an excerpt from the 14th Amendment: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

This amendment was proposed by Congress in response to which of the following?

• the rise of violence against emancipated slaves

• The South continuously violating the rights of blacks even after the Civil War (black codes)

• the emergence of white resistance to the civil rights movement

• the attempts of the North to limit the voting rights of African Americans

What was the main effect of the system of debt peonage (sharecropping) that emerged in the South during the late 19th century?

• African Americans were unable to afford to work agricultural jobs.

• African Americans left the South in large numbers to escape their debts

• African Americans labored in a system that was nearly the same as slavery

• African Americans had to work for low wages to pay off their emancipation costs

What event is described in this diagram?

• The Battle of Sioux Falls

• The Sand Creek Massacre

• The Battle of Little Bighorn

• The Wounded Knee Massacre

Which of the following was the main reason that the federal government created a method for Native Americans to become U.S. citizens?

• to reduce the amount of money spent supporting Native Americans

• to encourage Native Americans to assimilate into mainstream society

• to undermine the legal basis of the treaties made with Native American tribes

• to guarantee that Native Americans enjoyed constitutionally protected civil rights

What was the main purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887?

• to ensure the spread of manufacturing across the frontier

• to remove import taxes for goods shipped from one state to another

• to protect American agriculture and industry from foreign competition

• to prevent railroads from charging farmers and merchants high shipping rates

What was the main goal of the Reconstruction era?

• To punish the Southern states

• To rebuild the South and integrate it back into the Union

• To expand westward

• To industrialize the Southern economy

The Anaconda Plan was

• based on the fact that South had a large industrial factories.

• to blockade the South and have their supplies bleed dry.

• to block the North and have their supplies bleed dry.

• to ambush the North during night time when no one would expect them.