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1.09 Module History Exam Answer Key

Answer 1

Question 1 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)Which statement best explains why the period from the end of Reconstruction to the early 20th century was referred to as the nadir of American race relations?

State governments actively resisted the efforts of the federal government to promote an integrated society.

Both African Americans and whites moved to segregated communities to avoid intermingling with members of the other race.

Racism was deeply felt throughout the nation, and the civil rights gains of the Reconstruction period were rolled back by Jim Crow laws.

Racially motivated violence tore apart communities around the nation and resulted in inner-city riots that devastated African American neighborhoods.

Points earned on this question: 5

Question 2 (Worth 3 points)

(LC)What was a result of the Battle of Antietam?

the collapse of the Whig Party

the admission of Texas as a slave state

the passage of the Missouri Compromise

the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation

Points earned on this question: 3

Question 3 (Worth 3 points)

(LC)Which action increased the tensions between the North and the South that led to the Civil War?

the Dred Scott decision

the election of Ulysses S. Grant

the formation of the Whig Party

the impeachment of President Johnson

Points earned on this question: 3

Question 4 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)Which action by President Andrew Johnson had the greatest impact on Reconstruction?

his veto of the Reconstruction Acts

his firing of Secretary of War Stanton

his grant of amnesty to former Confederate soldiers

his campaign for Democrats during the elections of 1866

Points earned on this question: 5

Question 5 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)What was the main impact of the Ku Klux Klan on the South during Reconstruction?

It prevented Northerners from moving to the South.

It kept African Americans from exercising their rights.

It helped elect Republican candidates to Southern legislatures.

It made it difficult for the Union Army to police Southern communities.

Points earned on this question: 5

Question 6 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)Which of these people or groups wanted to impose the most forgiving conditions on the defeated Confederate states?

Union Army generals

the Freedmen's Bureau

President Andrew Johnson

Republican Congressional leaders

Points earned on this question: 5

Question 7 (Worth 6 points)

(HC)The map below shows migration routes followed by African Americans after the Civil War.

Map image showing the Great Migration of African Americans from 1900 to 1929. The map shows several distinct patterns of movement. One path moves from the southern states of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia to the north along the East Coast. A second path moves from the southern states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee to the northern states of Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. A third path moves from the southern states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas to the north and to the west.
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Which of the following is the best explanation for the migration patterns shown on the map?

Agricultural workers moved to areas of the country that had not been devastated by the Civil War.

African Americans moved to the North to rejoin family members who had escaped from slavery before the Civil War.

The federal government offered free land to emancipated slaves who left the plantations where they had been enslaved.

Emancipated slaves left the South to escape racial discrimination and to seek economic opportunities in the North and West.

Points earned on this question: 6

Question 8 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)Which statement describes a common trait of the three Reconstruction Amendments?

They all prevented states from re-establishing a system of slavery.

They have all been used to expand voting rights for minority groups.

They all focused on extending citizenship and protecting civil rights of minority groups.

They were all supported by both Republicans and Democrats at the time of their passage.

Points earned on this question: 5

Question 9 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)The passage below is an excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment:

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

The ratification of this amendment gave Congress the power to pass which kinds of laws?

laws protecting civil rights

laws expanding voting rights

laws providing social services

laws requiring citizenship tests

Points earned on this question: 5

Question 10 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)How did lawmakers use the Fourteenth Amendment to justify the passage of Jim Crow laws in the South?

They claimed that the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to the South because the territory was no longer part of the United States.

They argued that the Fourteenth Amendment applied only to the actions of state governments, not private individuals or businesses.

They argued that the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional because African Americans were not legal citizens.

They claimed that the Fourteenth Amendment protected only the rights of African Americans living in the North.

Points earned on this question: 5

Question 11 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)What was the main effect of the grandfather clauses and literacy tests put in place in the South at the end of the 19th century?

African American voters were disenfranchised.

The Republican Party maintained its dominance.

Emancipated slaves were forced to work on plantations.

Poor people were excluded from the political system.

Points earned on this question: 5

Question 12 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)Which of the following was one consequence of the system of debt peonage that emerged during the late 19th century?

the rapid industrialization and modernization of the Southern economy

the migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West

the creation of a new political coalition consisting of poor whites and blacks

the creation of racially-segregated communities throughout the United States

Points earned on this question: 5

Question 13 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)Map showing Indian battles from 1870 to 1890. The map shows that the majority of major battles took place in the West in the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains.
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What was the main reason for the Indian Wars that took place in the region indicated on the map during the second half of the 19th century?

treaty violations by dissatisfied Native American leaders

attacks by hostile Native American tribes on U.S. military outposts

resistance to the new federal policy aimed at assimilating Native Americans

territorial pressures on Native Americans resulting from increased white settlement

Points earned on this question: 5

Question 14 (Worth 6 points)

(HC)The cartoon below was published in 1862.

Image of President Lincoln standing in front of a tree with the word Slavery written on the trunk. There is a man trembling in the tree branches. The following text is displayed at the bottom of the image Lincolns Last Warning. Now, if you don
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With which of the following lines from a constitutional amendment is this cartoon most directly aligned?

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States . . . are citizens of the United States."

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied . . . on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude . . . shall exist within the United States."

"But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt . . . or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave."

Points earned on this question: 6

Question 15 (Worth 3 points)

(LC)Which Native American practice was a central factor in the Wounded Knee Massacre?

the potlatch

buffalo hunting

the Ghost Dance

a nomadic lifestyle

Points earned on this question: 3

Question 16 (Worth 3 points)

(LC)What was the main goal of federal Indian policy from the late 1880s through World War II?

Americanizing native peoples

preserving Native American traditions

developing facilities on reservations

subduing the few remaining hostile tribes

Points earned on this question: 3

Question 17 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)Which statement best explains how the Kansas-Nebraska Act contributed to the tensions between the North and the South that led to the Civil War?

The act gave abolitionist leaders enough seats in Congress to outlaw slavery throughout the United States.

The act allowed state governments to prevent fugitive slaves from being returned to their owners in the South.

The act led to violent conflicts between settlers in the Great Plains over the issue of expanding slavery to new territories.

The act prevented Southern slave owners from taking their slaves into federal territories without risking the loss of those slaves.

Points earned on this question: 5

Question 18 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)Which statement best explains why President Lincoln was opposed to the Wade-Davis Bill?

He wanted more Democratic support for any Reconstruction bill.

The bill went against his more lenient plans for reuniting the nation.

He thought the bill would give the federal government too much power.

The bill would have voided key provisions of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Points earned on this question: 5

Question 19 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)In what way did President Grant's approach to Reconstruction differ from that of President Johnson?

He expanded the power of the Freedmen's Bureau.

He jailed Confederate leaders who had been pardoned.

He used the military to protect African Americans from violence.

He blocked Southern states from gaining readmission to the Union.

Points earned on this question: 5

Question 20 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)What action by President Lincoln most angered the Radical Republicans in Congress?

his acceptance of the Anaconda Plan

his pocket veto of the Wade-Davis Bill

his delay in issuing the Emancipation Proclamation

his choice of Andrew Johnson as a vice-presidential running mate

Points earned on this question: 0

Question 21 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)What idea was the foundation for Jim Crow laws?

Americans with African origins should return to Africa to live.

African Americans are culturally and intellectually inferior to white people.

African American children learn best when educated by African American teachers.

Poor white farmers can only prosper if emancipated slaves are not allowed to become farmers.

Points earned on this question: 5

Answer 2

20 would be the only one needing a correction, everything else is correct.

Answer 3

you didnt actually give the answers.

Answer 4

let me fix that