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STAAR Questions: Reconstruction.

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 54mins

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1.

A historian is writing an article for a history website. The article is divided into the following topics below:

Which era in U.S. history is the focus of this article?

a)

The Jacksonian era.

b)

The antebellum era.

c)

The Federalist era.

d)

The Reconstruction era.

2.
What is the historical significance of this act below?
a)
It was the first time Congress voted to overrule a presidential veto.
b)
It represented a shift in federal power after the impeachment of President Johnson.
c)
It was the first time Congress passed a law that protected racial minorities.
d)
It represented the failure of northern abolitionists to influence Reconstruction policies.
3.
The election of Hiram Rhodes Revels in 1870 was significant because he was the first African American to?
a)
win an election as a member of the Democratic Party.
b)
win a majority of the popular vote in Mississippi.
c)
serve as a member of the U.S. Senate.
d)
run for public office in the South.
4.
After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to?
a)
punish plantation owners for the use of slavery.
b)
support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South.
c)
promote the activities of the Freedmen’s Bureau.
d)
imit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment.
5.
What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?
a)
Agricultural workers organized labor unions.
b)
Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt.
c)
Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses.
d)
Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves.
6.
This list below describes conditions found in —
a)
California following the Gold Rush.
b)
Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812.
c)
western territories after the U.S.-Mexican War.
d)
southern states at the beginning of Reconstruction.
7.
Southern states passed the codes described in this excerpt below in order to —
a)
limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments.
b)
increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North.
c)
decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress.
d)
improve relations with the Democratic Party.
8.
One effect of the Dawes Act was that it?
a)
caused many American Indian tribes to create written constitutions.
b)
provided education to American Indians through locally run schools.
c)
limited the voting rights of American Indians.
d)
harmed the communal structure of American Indian society.
9.
Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?
a)
The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
b)
The positions taken in the Know-Nothing Party platform.
c)
The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War.
d)
The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation.
10.
Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?
a)
African American families divided by slavery were reunited. 
b)
Newly free men and women moved west to claim land.  
c)
African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election.  
d)
Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship.  
11.
The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to?
a)
establish legal requirements for the education of former slaves.
b)
mandate fair labor contracts between African American workers and plantation owners.
c)
abolish the institution of slavery.
d)
protect the voting rights of African American men.
12.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by?
a)
providing them with voting rights.
b)
guaranteeing their freedom of speech.
c)
providing them with access to the court system.
d)
guaranteeing their permanent freedom from slavery.
13.
Which of these describes a result of the Thirteenth Amendment?
a)
African Americans in the North could vote.
b)
State governments were required to protect individual rights.
c)
Former Confederate officials were prohibited from holding elected office.
d)
African Americans in the South could move elsewhere.
14.
This painting of a Missouri scene was completed in 1852. Such scenes would look dramatically different after the?
a)
ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment.
b)
Second Great Awakening.
c)
emergence of Manifest Destiny.
d)
expansion of the factory system into the South.
15.

These reforms above were instituted by?

a)

Governors during the colonial era.

b)

Reconstruction governments after the Civil War.

c)

Patriots during the American Revolution.

d)

Revivalists after the Second Great Awakening.

16.

Which of the following best completes the list above?

a)

Established schools.

b)

Certified applications for political office.

c)

Granted small-business loans.

d)

Provided funds for farming supplies.

17.

In this excerpt above, President Hayes proposes a change in federal policy toward American Indians. Legislation based on this new policy did which of the following?

a)

Promoted individual land ownership among American Indians.

b)

Forced white settlers to leave reservation lands.

c)

Ended federal oversight of tribal governments.

d)

Granted American Indians the rights to attend public schools.

18.

The measures in the list above are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the?

a)

Compromise of 1850.

b)

Fifteenth Amendment.

c)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

d)

Dred Scott v. Sanford decision.

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