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Unit 2 Final Exam (Multiple Choice Section) D&D U.S.

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 55mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What years were the Reconstruction Era?

a)

1865-1877

b)

1850 - 1900

c)

1863-1879

d)

1877-1890

2.
The 14th Amendment granted...
a)
freedom of speech
b)
citizenship and equal protection
c)
the right to vote
d)
the right to a speedy and fair trial
3.
Which of these amendments gives citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
18th Amendment
4.
The 13th Amendment ...
a)
banned slavery
b)
grants voting rights
c)
grants citizenship and equal protection
d)
restores Confederate rights
5.
Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?
a)
limit African Americans rights
b)
expand Confederate rights
c)
give women voting rights
d)
jail Carpetbaggers
6.
Who could hold public office in the south during Reconstruction?
a)
African Americans
b)
Confederate Leaders
c)
Southern Women
d)
American Indians
7.
Jim Crow Laws passed after Reconstruction took away African American Voting Rights using...
a)
Voter Registration Laws
b)
Political Gerrymandering
c)
Voter Identification Laws
d)
Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests
8.
What government organization was established to help African Americans fight the Black Codes? 
a)
Freedman's Bureau
b)
Better Business Bureau
c)
Helping Hands
d)
Hayes Helpers
9.
Poll taxes & ____ prevented African Americans from voting.
a)

grandfather clauses

b)
Jim Crow laws
c)
black codes
d)
Freedmen's Bureau
10.

This organization helped newly freed slaves with food, medical care, jobs, housing and schooling. 

a)
Sharecropping
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
Reconstruction
d)
Freedmen's Bureau 
11.
laws enforcing racial segregation
a)
black codes
b)
jim crow laws
c)
reconstruction laws
d)
scalawags
12.
Terrorist organization created to intimidate & prevent freedmen & Republicans from gaining political power in the South
a)
Bourbon Triumvirate
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
ISIS
d)
Mary Phagan's Knights
13.

The Supreme Court case that created “separate but equal” was:

a)

Scott v. Illinois

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Schenectady v. United States

d)

Marbury v. Madison

14.

What did Homer Plessy do that got him arrested?

a)

Sat in the white only part of the bus.

b)

Took a seat in the white only car of a train.

c)

Sat at a white only section of a lunch counter.

15.

What were two effects of the Plessy vs. Ferguson court case?

a)

racial tension was was heightened

b)

racial segregation was ended

c)

racial segregation was determined legal

d)

racism was deemed illegal and unconstitutional

e)

racial tension began to ease in the years that followed

16.

What did the Separate Car Act do?

a)

Said that all people should own their own car

b)

Forced blacks and whites to sit in same train car

c)

Segregated trains in Louisiana

17.

Plessy and the other members of his organization were trying to challenge

a)

the Brown v. Board of Education case

b)

Segregation and the Jim Crow laws

c)

Reconstruction

d)

equal pay for equal work

18.

What was one of the results of Plessy v. Ferguson?

a)

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.

b)

The Supreme Court never made a ruling.

c)

The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.

19.

Poll Taxes

Literacy Tests

Grandfather Clauses


The measures in this list 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. Sandford decision

20.

What do you call a person who was opposed to slavery and worked toward ending it?

a)

Fugitive

b)

Abolitionist

c)

Secessionist

d)

Whig

21.

An Act and Statue are both synonyms for...

a)

Sculpture

b)

Art

c)

Law

d)

Action

22.

To gauge something is to....

a)

ration

b)

ignore

c)

interpret

d)

measure

23.

In the following excerpt, "a law which authorizes or even requires the separation of the two races in public conveyances is unreasonable..." the word conveyance means...

a)

transportation

b)

to communicate

c)

ship

d)

discourage

24.

In the following excerpt, "We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation..." the word fallacy means...

a)

deception

b)

opinion

c)

mistake

d)

truth

25.

If you have merits, that means you have...

a)

Good Qualities

b)

Money

c)

Fame

d)

Power

26.

In the following excerpt, "...a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either," the word commingling means...

a)

mixing

b)

marriage

c)

removal

d)

separation

27.
What Amendment gave women the right to vote?
a)
15
b)
19
c)
12
d)
26
28.
What was the first year women could vote?
a)
1906
b)
1917
c)
1943
d)
1920
29.

Suffrage means......

a)

the right to vote

b)

the right for women to vote

c)

the women who fought for women’s rights

d)

the fight for women’s rights

30.

Which U.S. President was in the administration when the 19th Amendment was destined to be passed?

a)

President Wilson

b)

President F. Roosevelt

c)

President Taft

d)

President Hoover

31.
Which group strongly supported the Women's Suffrage Movement?
a)
Ku Klux Klan
b)
Abolitionists
c)
Anti-Suffrage Society
d)
Regulators
32.
Which international conflict actually helped the Women's Suffrage Movement?
a)
The American Civil War
b)
World War I
c)
The French and Indian War
d)
The Revolutionary War
33.
How did U.S. involvement in World War I impact the Women’s Suffrage Movement?
a)
Returning soldiers were exposed to the Woman Suffrage Movement in England and became more supportive.
b)
President Wilson decided to support voting rights for women after witnessing the contributions women made in the war effort.
c)
Congress refused to consider requests for domestic issues.
d)
People no longer considered granting women the right to vote because the war was a priority.
34.

The picture best represents which reform movement?

a)

Temperance Movement

b)

Prison Reform Movement

c)

Education Reform Movement

d)

Women's Suffrage Movement

35.

What was the name of the first women's rights convention?

a)

Constitutional Convention

b)

Seneca Falls Convention

c)

Women Rule Convention

d)

Convention of Women's Rights

36.
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 crafted a document that was very similar to the __________________.
a)
Emancipation Proclamation
b)
Halifax Resolves
c)
Declaration of Independence
d)
Articles of Confederation
37.

In the following excerpt, "in regard to women's sphere, such a man as Herbert Spencer...uniformly subordinate her rights and duties as an individual, as a citizen, as a women..." the word sphere means ...

a)

Region

b)

Area

c)

Map

d)

Expertise

38.

Self-sovereignty is the ...

a)

ability to take control of one's life

b)

capacity to be independent

c)

power to make one's own decisions

d)

right to choose one's own path

39.

The "Declaration of Rights and Sentiments" was a list:

a)

of all the ways men held women in tyranny

b)

all the ways women were superior to men

c)

a knock off of the Declaration of Independence

d)

that was only signed by women.

40.

What were the "traditional" 19th century gender roles?

a)

Both men and women worked and provided for their families.

b)

Men cooked and cleaned while the women worked and made money for their families.

c)

Both men and women stayed home to cook, clean, raise children, and take care of the house.

d)

Men worked, voted, and participated in politics while women stayed at home cooking, cleaning, and raising the children.

41.

What group of immigrants were arriving in large numbers on the West Coast in the middle to late 1800's?

a)

Greek

b)

Chinese

c)

British

d)

French

42.
This law specifically barred Chinese laborers from entering the US, and was in place for more than 60 years.
a)
The Chinese Exclusion Act
b)
The Ban on Foreign Labor Act
c)
The Asian Immigration Act
d)
The Chinese Labor Law
43.
A major cause of antagonism toward the “new immigrants” who came to the United States after 1880 was the belief that they...
a)
were better educated than native-born Americans
b)
had a higher standard of living than most Americans
c)
adapted easily to American culture
d)
competed with Americans for jobs as unskilled laborers
44.
19th century Chinese immigrants are known for what?
a)
Work in building the Transcontinental Railroad
b)
Work in New York factories
c)
Contributions to the steel industry
d)
Contributions to John D. Rockefeller
45.

Which of these best describes the Chinese Exclusion Act?

a)

the last in a series of restrictive immigration policies the US passed in the 1880s

b)

the first US law to restrict immigration based on race and nationality

c)

a further expansion of US citizenship opportunities for immigrants

d)

the first significant trade law the US passed with China

46.

Under the Chinese Exclusion Act, thousands of Chinese people were

a)

relocated to Wyoming.

b)

automatically naturalized as US citizens.

c)

detained on Angel Island for months.

d)

forced to work laying the railroad tracks.

47.

The Supreme Court decided in the Fong Yue Ting vs. U.S. case ....

a)

8-1 in favor of Fong Yue Ting

b)

4-5 in favor of Fong Yue Ting

c)

7-2 in favor of the U.S.

d)

6-3 in favor of the U.S.

48.

With the decision of Fong Yue Ting v. the United States, the Supreme Court upheld that Congress

a)

could pass laws to protect civil rights

b)

could limit the power of the President

c)

could regulate immigration and establish rules for deportation

d)

could create new immigration laws

49.

Fong Yue Ting and the other plaintiffs argued the Geary Act violated ____ ______ , protected by the 5th & 14th Amendments.

a)

Due Process

b)

Freedom of Speech

c)

Right to Privacy

d)

Right to Bear Arms

50.

The National Origins Quota System would not end until the Immigration Act of ____ in the United States.

a)

1970

b)

1965

c)

1975

d)

1960