10th Grade Post Assessment

Which of the following identifies another way that the Freedmen’s Bureau supported opportunities for former slaves in the South?

• It offered assistance for those who wanted to resettle in Africa.

• It helped to provide education by opening and managing schools.

• It organized political parties to elect African Americans to Congress.

• It provided transportation for workers migrating North for factory jobs.

What best explains the reason why codes like this were enacted in Southern states?

• to maintain the control of whites over African Americans

• to guide newly freed slaves as they gained experience as citizens

• to ensure that African Americans had the same legal rights as whites

• to meet federal standards on civil rights required for rejoining the Union

What best explains the reason why the Freedmen’s Bureau was established?

• to organize African Americans into a national political party

• to encourage African Americans from the South to get jobs in the North

• to segregate African Americans through separate but equal opportunities

• to help African Americans in the South in making the change from slavery

What was the primary goal of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• enforcing private property rights for landowners

• providing essential services to former slaves

• removing restrictions to suffrage for young adults

• ending the military occupation of the Southern states

Which statement is supported by this information?

• The parties remained in competition for political control.

• The South began to be concerned with industrial expansion.

• The national focus had shifted away from civil rights issues.

• The North continued to be concerned with protecting states’ rights.

Based on this excerpt, how did the economy of the South change in the 1870s?

• High prices increased the demand for agricultural crops.

• Sharecropping replaced slavery as the main labor system.

• Workforce reduction limited the ability of farmers to profit from crops.

• Limited work opportunities encouraged mass migration to other areas.

What was the main purpose of these requirements?

• to gain political support from advocates of states’ rights

• to specify how former states of the Confederacy could rejoin the Union

• to make it more difficult for newly freed slaves to enjoy the rights of citizenship

• to recognize the constitutions ratified by Southern states during the Confederacy

How did Congress eventually invalidate the Supreme Court’s decision?

• It asked state courts to uphold the provisions.

• It impeached the justices who made the ruling.

• It rejected the ruling with a two-thirds majority vote.

• It passed the 13th Amendment to make slavery illegal.

Which of the following best replaces the question mark in the diagram?

• Supporting active public interest groups

• Defending the actions of public officials

• Learning about the positions of candidates

• Helping organize political campaigns

How did Texas address the labor problems described above?

• Farmers began to recruit workers from northern cities.

• Freed slaves began sharecropping in Texas.

• Local leaders began hiring temporary workers from Europe.

• Texas repealed child labor laws that were in effect during the war.