Worksheets15.0 - Module Pre-Test
Total questions: 6
Worksheet time: 3mins
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Class
Date
1.
Freed blacks
a)
A) most often demanded a redistribution of economic resources.
b)
B) only asked for legal equality.
c)
C) were nearly unanimous in their desire for independence from white control.
d)
D) generally remained involved in mixed-race churches.
e)
E) sought violent revenge for past wrongs.
2.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
a)
A) declared that the right to vote could not be denied on account of race.
b)
B) officially ended slavery.
c)
C) granted "citizenship" to the freed men.
d)
D) provided that states could only count three-fifths (60%) of their black population when determining how many members they could be given in the U.S. House of Representatives.
e)
E) opened up the West to homesteading by African Americans.
3.
The "Black Codes" were a set of regulations established by
a)
A) the Congress to protect the rights of the former slaves to own property and to find employment.
b)
B) the U.S. Supreme Court to enforce the provisions of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
c)
C) the Northern states to prevent a massive influx of former slaves from entering their states and seeking homes and jobs.
d)
D) the Southern states to promote white supremacy and to control the economic and social activities of the freed men.
e)
E) the Southern states to ameliorate radical Reconstruction Acts.
4.
In the late nineteenth century, the agricultural credit system in the South encouraged farmers
a)
A) to rely heavily on cash crops—especially cotton.
b)
B) to diversify away from cotton toward food grains and livestock.
c)
C) to adopt the use of mechanization on increasingly larger farms.
d)
D) to abandon farming and invest in capital-intensive manufacturing enterprises.
e)
E) to abandon their land and go west.
5.
Ulysses S. Grant's election as president was largely a result of his being
a)
A) governor of New York during the postwar economic boom.
b)
B) a triumphant commanding general of the Union army.
c)
C) the popular administrator of the Freedmen's Bureau.
d)
D) a flamboyant cavalry officer in the western Indian wars.
e)
E) incorruptible.
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