FLVS US History Practice EOC

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

Answer explanation

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed to allow for settlement in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

The act allowed for settlers to vote on whether or not the territory would have slavery.

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

Answer explanation

When the Civil War ended the U.S. entered a period call Reconstruction. During Reconstruction three amendments were added to the Constitution. The 15th Amendment allows African American men the right to vote.

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

Answer explanation

The Freedmen’s Bureau was created to assist in the transition from slavery to freedom. It succeed in creating schools for African Americans.

The passage below is an excerpt from the Fourteenth 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 passage of Black Codes throughout the South

• the emergence of white resistance to the civil rights movement

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

Answer explanation

The 14th Amendment grants African Americans citizenship and full rights under the Constitution. To limit the rights and advancement of African Americans in the South, many Southern states passed Black Codes.

What was the main effect of the system of debt peonage 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.

Answer explanation

Debt peonage requires that a person’s debt be paid off through work. After the Civil War many newly freed African Americans accrued sharecropping debt that was then paid off through labor.

The excerpt below was printed in a magazine in the South in 1866:

We should be satisfied to compel them to engage in coarse, common manual labor, and to punish them

for dereliction of duty or non fulfillment of their contracts with such severity, as to make them useful,

productive laborers.

Which of the following would the author of this excerpt most likely have supported?

• the formation of the Freedmen's Bureau

• the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment

• the passage of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws

• the relocation of emancipated slaves to colonies in Africa

Answer explanation

Black Codes and Jim Crowe laws in many Southern states required that African Americans sign yearly labor contracts. Anyone found without a contract could be imprisoned.

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

Answer explanation

The Battle of Little Bighorn was the result of the U.S. army attempting for force the Native Americans out of the Black Hills and back to reservations. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull were Native American leaders and urged their people to resist the army. Crazy Horse defeated General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn

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

Answer explanation

The main goal of U.S. relations with the Native Americans throughout the 1800s was assimilation (become part of American society and culture). Those that did not want to assimilate were placed on reservations.

The diagram below shows the various goals of the Dawes Act of 1877.

• Lure Native Americans to migrate to the frontier

• Entice Native Americans to move to urban areas

• Give Native Americans jobs in the federal bureaucracy

• Push Native Americans to adopt an agricultural lifestyle

Answer explanation

The goal of the Dawes Act was to get the Native Americans to assimilate by making them independent farmers on land they owned.

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

Answer explanation

The Interstate Commerce Act was created to limit the monopolistic practices of the railroad industry.