Unit 5 Study Guide

1. Which of the following was a primary reason for the ratification of the 14th Amendment?

• To abolish slavery

• efforts by Southern states to restrict the rights of

  African Americans

• To establish the federal income tax

• To give women the right to vote

2. Why was the former Confederacy divided into 5 military districts during Radical Reconstruction?

• To govern the former Confederate states.

• To punish the Southern states for seceding from the Union

• To provide military training to the Southern population

• To establish new state governments loyal to the Confederacy

3. How did grandfather clauses apply to suffrage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

• They allowed all citizens to vote regardless of literacy tests.

• They exempted certain people from voting restrictions based on their ancestors' voting rights.

• They were laws that required all voters to pass literacy tests.

• They were amendments that granted women the right to vote.

The 14th amendment effectively overturned which prior decision of the Supreme Court?

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Marbury v. Madison

5. The 14th amendment is historically significant because:

• it abolished slavery in the United States.

• it granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.

• it gave women the right to vote.

• it established the federal income tax.

6. When facing impeachment, Andrew Johnson was accused of violating which act of Congress?

• Tenure of Office Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Homestead Act

• Reconstruction Act

The group of politicians that sought the impeachment of Andrew Johnson was known as the:

• Radical Republicans

• Federalists

• Whigs

• Democrats

8. What constitutional amendment ended slavery in the United States?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

9. What constitutional amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the United States?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

The 13th amendment brought to life the intentions of which presidential decree?

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• Monroe Doctrine

• New Deal