RMS GA Practice 4

Which of the following was NOT a part of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?

• Free African Americans were granted US citizenship.

• Slaves could not be citizens of individual states.

• The Missouri Compromise was ruled unconstitutional.

• Living in a free state did not make a person free.

What was one key difference between a tenant farmer and a sharecropper?

• Tenant farmers only grew cotton while sharecroppers had to grow whatever they were told by the landowner.

• Tenant farmers would own their land after a certain period of time while sharecroppers would never own their land.

• Tenant farmers could sell all of their crops and make a profit while sharecroppers had to give a percentage of their crops to the landowner.

• Tenant farmers owned their land and crops while sharecroppers had to rent land and give away their crops.

How did economics contribute to shifting attitudes toward slavery in Georgia between 1750 and 1860?

• Georgia's elite grew wealthy through education and skilled work and fought for the cause of abolition nationwide.

• Georgia's wealthy elite primarily derived their wealth from agriculture and actively fought to preserve and defend slavery.

• Georgia's growing cities attracted abolitionist speakers and writers who grew the movement to eliminate slavery.

• Georgia's economic reliance on slavery in cotton production led people to try to normalize and defend it.

In 1870, Georgia was readmitted into the Union after the state

• adopted a new state constitution.

• ratified the Fifteenth Amendment.

• arrested former Confederate leaders.

• desegregated its public school system.

How did the Supreme Court justify its ruling in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson?

• The court argued that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 only applied to private actions, not government actions.

• The court argued that the Equal Protection Clause in the US Constitution only applied to gender discrimination.

• The court argued that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments extended political rights to African Americans, but not social rights.

• The court argued that the violence that would result from forcing desegregation on US society would hurt the country as a whole.

How did the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution add to sectionalism before the Civil War?

• Southern leaders claimed the federal government could regulate slavery because the Constitution did not allow the states to.

• Southern leaders claimed the federal government could not regulate slavery because the power to do so was a reserve power under the Tenth Amendment.

• Southern leaders claimed regulating slavery was a state's right because it was a right not given to the federal government.

• Abolitionist leaders claimed the federal government could regulate slavery because the Constitution did not allow the states to.

Booker T. Washington's focus on civil rights through education and economic advancement led him to:

• A. found the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

• B. emphasize using protests to demand immediate reforms.

• C. emphasize developing a Talented Tenth professional class.

• D. found the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.

What Reconstruction-era development in Georgia was Turner referring to in this excerpt?

• A. the support for sharecropping by the General Assembly

• B. the General Assembly's enactment of laws restricting Black Americans' rights

• C. the removal of Black legislators from the General Assembly

• D. the General Assembly's refusal to outlaw membership in the Ku Klux Klan

What is the difference between the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment?

• The 13th Amendment protects the rights of slave owners while the Emancipation Proclamation protects the rights of the slaves.

• Both documents make slavery illegal within the United States, but the Emancipation proclamation was created during the Civil War while the 13th Amendment was created after the war.

• The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation was the only way the states that seceded from the Union would be readmitted into the United States.

• The Emancipation Proclamation only frees the slaves belonging to the Confederate States while the 13th Amendment made the institution of slavery illegal for the whole United States.

As managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution in the 1880s, what did Henry Grady use the paper to promote?

• women's suffrage

• racial integration

• the unionization of labor

• southern industrial growth