AP African American Studies UNIT 3 EXAM

What was the primary objective of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

• Equal protection

• Right to vote

• Granting citizenship

• Abolition of slavery

When first ratified in 1870, what did the 15th Amendment guarantee?

• Equal protection under the law

• The abolition of slavery

• The right to vote for all male citizens of the United States *

• The right to vote for all citizens of the United States

What was the ultimate aspiration of the Reconstruction Era?

• Reestablish and reintegrate Southern states into the Union and protect the formerly enslaved *

• Furtherance of slavery practices

• Immediate universal suffrage implementation

• Penalizing southern states for secession

Why were Black Codes enacted during the Reconstruction Era?

• To help African Americans vote

• To provide legal support for freed slaves

• To restore the social controls of earlier slave codes *

• To promote racial equality

What was the long-term effect of the revocation of General William T. Sherman’s Special Order No. 15?

• Immediate integration of African-Americans

• African Americans were evicted from confiscated lands or shifted into sharecropping contracts

• Swift rebuilding of Southern infrastructure

• Immediate economic boom caused by the return of southern democratic rule

Who profited most from convict leasing in the Southern United States?

• Northern industries

• Churches

• southern plantations

• southern prisons

What was accomplished by instituting Jim Crow laws?

• They created separate public spheres for different races

• They ended slavery

• They eliminated racism

• They established equal rights for all American citizens

Which of the following is considered a major impact of the Election of 1876?

• Restored Civil Rights to all US citizens

• It initiated the Progressive Era

• It led directly to the Gilded Age

• It ended Reconstruction in the South

Which Supreme Court ruling legally validated racial segregation policies?

• Marbury v. Madison

• Plessy v. Ferguson *

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Brown v. Board of Education

The Great Migration of African Americans in the early to mid-20th century was largely a response to which factor?

• Jim Crow laws and racial violence in the South

• The completion of the transcontinental railroad

• The spread of the Ku Klux Klan in the North

• Industrial expansion in the South