History Pretest 1

What statement about the Fourteenth Amendment is true?

Its promise of equal protection was largely unfulfilled as Southern governments took measures to limit the progress of emancipated slaves.

What was the main goal of the Radical Republicans who served in Congress during Reconstruction?

to secure civil rights for African Americans living in the South

Which best explains why the Ku Klux Klan was formed?

to stop emancipated slaves from exercising their new rights

What was the main purpose of the Black Codes?

to preserve white supremacy

What was the main effect of the Supreme Court's 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?

It legitimized the establishment of a segregated society in the Southern states.

What was made possible by the Fourteenth Amendment?

Emancipated slaves had full citizenship under the law.

How did President Johnson respond to the expanded power of the Radical Republicans after the election of 1866?

He vetoed all of the Radicals' Reconstruction bills.

What effect did the Fifteenth Amendment have on the American political system?

It gave African American men a voice in government.

Why did President Johnson lose control of Reconstruction?

Radical Republicans expanded their Congressional majority in the elections of 1866.

What statement best explains white Southerners' motivation for working to disenfranchise African Americans voters?

The majority or near-majority of the population of most Southern states was African American.

Why did Southern legislatures pass Jim Crow laws?

to get around the Constitutional protections put in place by the Reconstruction amendments

Which Radical Republican proposal for Reconstruction was defeated by its opponents?

distributing plantation land to emancipated slaves

What was one method used by the federal government to carry out the Native American policies adopted in the late 1800s?

making traditional Native American religious ceremonies illegal

Which of these contributed to the Union victory in the Civil War?

ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment

What contributed most directly to the Sand Creek Massacre?

the Pike's Peak Gold Rush

What resulted in many emancipated slaves remaining on the plantations where they had been enslaved?

the creation of a system of sharecropping

The Kansas-Nebraska Act concerned which issue?

the expansion of slavery into new territories