Unit Test 1 Type Questions

Which law passed by the Radical Republicans in Congress is quoted above?

• Equal Protection Clause

• Federal Income Tax

• Tenure of Office Act

• Enforcement Act

Based on the quotation above, how did Senator Sumner feel about President Johnson’s impeachment trial in 1868?

• Sumner was opposed to Johnson’s conviction and removal.

• He was undecided based on the evidence presented in the trial.

• He planned to side with the Democrats instead of the Radical Republicans.

• Sumner planned to support a conviction of Johnson and removal from office.

Which political conflict and its aftermath is depicted in the image?

• Presidential Election of 1876

• Johnson Impeachment Trial

• Radical Reconstruction

• Congressional Reapportion

Based on the diagram, which Reconstruction amendment was limited by literacy tests, poll taxes, and Grandfather clauses?

• A. 13th Amendment

• B. 14th Amendment

• C. 13th & 14th Amendments

• D. 15th Amendment

Which phrase completes the diagram above?

• U.S. Participation in World War I

• Responses to the Gilded Age

• Achievements of Reconstruction

• Modern Foreign Policy

Which discriminatory legislation enacted at the end of Reconstruction is illustrated in the image?

• Jim Crow laws

• Black Codes

• Grandfather clause

• Enforcement acts

Which statement best describes the focus of this Reconstruction image?

• African Americans were not allowed to participate in politics.

• Black politicians increasingly served in the U.S. Congress.

• Radical groups prevented minorities from exercising their right to vote.

• Former slaves were only permitted to vote at the state level.

How does the map relate to the experiences of African Americans in the Reconstruction-era South?

• Freedmen often became trapped in a cycle of poverty due to sharecropping.

• Former slaves found it easy to integrate into mainstream society.

• Sharecropping provided many positive economic opportunities.

• Fair election practices led to increased black voter participation.

The table identifies some of the consequences of the failure of Reconstruction.

Which phrase completes the table?

• Freedmen became sharecroppers and tenants on lands owned by former slaveholders.

• African Americans experienced a rise in educational opportunities.
• African Americans were fully integrated into society.
• African Americans gained land ownership and wealth.

What was the main goal of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1860s and 1870s?

• To promote racial integration and equality.
• To support the federal government during Reconstruction.
• to terrorize freedmen so that they would not exercise their new rights.

• To advocate for the rights of African Americans.