Unit 1 Exam

Question 1

Before former confederate states could rejoin the union, the plan for reconstruction required___?

Answer 1

It required confederate states to ratify (sign) the 14th amendment

Question 2

Both the Homestead Act & the Pacific Railway Act were efforts made by the federal government to___?

Answer 2

Encourage settlement west of the Missouri River

Question 3

Literacy tests and grandfather clauses were enacted in the South after the Reconstruction Era to ___?

Answer 3

Limit the number of African American voters

Question 4

The 15th Amendment granted voting rights to __?

Answer 4

African American men

Question 5

Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) established the principle that in American society ___?

Answer 5

-Segregation of races in public spaces were legal

-Separate but equal facilities was okay for black & whites

-States could establish different schools for different races

Question 6

After the Civil War, white southern landowners used sharecropping to __?

Answer 6

Maintain a cheap labor supply

Question 7

The Radical Republican plan for reconstruction included which of the following?

Answer 7

(Answer: All of the above)

-Confederate states were divided into 5 military districts

-All former Confederate states had to ratify (sign) the 14th Admendment

-New state constitutions were approved by congress

Question 8

The Dawes Act encouraged Native Americans to __?

Answer 8

(Answer: All of the above)

-Give up their tribal lands in exchange for citizenship

-Adopt western ways

-Consolidate Indian reservations

Question 9

The Chinese Exclusion Act __?

Answer 9

Was supported by the Nativist movement and limited immigration from China to the United States

Question 10

What was a common goal of the 13,14, and 15th amendments to the United States constitution?

Answer 10

Granting basic rights to formerly enslaved persons