WORLD/U.S. HISTORY II
EOC Review Exam
Directions: Circle the correct answer.
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Why did Congress pass laws protecting civil rights during Reconstruction?
to reverse the Dred Scott decision
to abolish the black codes in the South
to punish former Confederate soldiers
to help former slaves migrate to the North
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Which of these statements describes the 15th Amendment?
Suffrage cannot be denied on the basis of race.
Anyone born in the United States is a citizen.
Congress has the power to collect taxes.
Slavery cannot exist in the United States.
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How did Congress uphold individual property rights of southerners during Reconstruction?
It returned confiscated land to former confederates.
It allowed the Freedmen’s Bureau to allocate farmland to former slaves.
It permitted land ownership to anyone who would grow cotton.
It enforced General William T. Sherman’s field order to redistribute coastal land.
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Slavery throughout the United States was abolished by the
Emancipation Proclamation.
Dred Scott decision.
14th Amendment.
13th Amendment.
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The original purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau was to
generate support among southern whites to attempt to end federal military occupation.
provide former slaves with food, clothing, and educational opportunities.
register blacks to vote.
enroll poor white and black southerners in trade unions.
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The definition of citizenship was one of the elements of the
10% Plan.
Wade-Davis Bill.
14th Amendment.
13th Amendment.
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Andrew Johnson was impeached because
southerners were opposed to his radical Reconstruction policies.
he was involved in the assassination of President Lincoln.
his administration was involved in a number of corrupt activities.
he was an obstacle to the radical Republican plan for Reconstruction.
8. Northerners who moved into the South during Reconstruction to help freedmen adjust to emancipation
were resented by white southerners who called them
a. radicals.
b. carpetbaggers.
c. scalawags.
d. traitors.
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In the view of the majority of southern ex-slaveholders, emancipation meant
they would be free of the burden of caring for blacks.
the economy of the South would collapse, and southern society would be thrown into chaos.
they would need to change from an agricultural economy to a commercial economy.
the freedmen should move out of the South.
10. One of the most controversial features of the Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction was
a. giving freedmen the right to vote.
b. the insistence that former Confederate officers be tried for treason.
c. that it denied former confederate soldiers the right to vote.
d. the impeachment of President Grant.
11. In the Slaughterhouse cases and in United States v. Cruikshank the Supreme Court
a. expanded its role in protecting the civil rights of freedmen.
b. restricted the ability of the federal government to protect individuals from discrimination by other
individuals.
c. angered southern whites by interfering with their practice of white supremacy.
d. greatly broadened the meaning and scope of due process and equal protection of the laws.
12. Freedmen who moved from the South to Kansas during Reconstruction were called
a. scalawags.
b. sharecroppers.
c. exodusters.
d. redeemers.
13. The main purpose of the Black Codes was to
a. guarantee freedom for freedmen.
b. ensure a stable and subservient labor supply.
c. prevent blacks from becoming sharecroppers.
d. create a system of justice for former slaves.
14. Reconstruction ended
a. with the Compromise of 1877.
b. when all southern states accepted the Reconstruction Amendments.
c. after the Ku Klux Klan was outlawed.
d. because freedmen were finally given the right to vote.
15. A primary motive for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was
a. hostility to the growing practice of interracial sex.
b. anger at white southerners who voted for Redemption.
c. resentment at the ability and success of black legislators.
d. to control the growing and selling of cotton.
16. Why was the purchase of Alaska in 1867 important to the development of the United States economy?
a. The land was richer in timber, gold, and oil.
b. The region set up an extensive trading network.
c. It made the country a dominant imperialistic force.
d. It established thousands of square miles of national forests.
17. How did the government’s policy of Manifest Destiny affect Native Americans living on the plains in
the late 1800s?
a. Native Americans were forced to accept treaties and land east of the Mississippi River.
b. Native Americans were forced to give up reservations with the passage of the Monroe Doctrine.
c. Native Americans were forced to mine gold discovered by settlers.
d. Native Americans were forced onto reservations while settlers took their land.
2 18. Why did the Homestead Act attract farmers to the frontier?
a. It guaranteed farmers access to the railroads.
b. It provided farmers with subsidies for their crops.
c. It offered tax incentives to farmers who settled in the West.
d. It offered free land to farmers who would improve it within five years.
19. One effect of the transcontinental railroad was to
a. make more land for Native Americans in the West.
b. attract more Latin Americans to the West.
c. make land available for cotton plantations in the West.
d. attract more migrants to the West.
20. In the warfare that raged between Native Americans and the American military after the Civil War
a. Native Americans were never as well armed as the soldiers.
b. Native Americans proved to be no match for the soldiers.
c. there was often great cruelty and massacres on both sides.
d. there were few instances of face-to-face combat.
21. The Dawes Severalty Act was intended to promote Native American
a. prosperity.
b. assimilation.
c. culture.
d. tribal reservations.
22. To encourage railroad construction in the decades after the Civil War, state and federal governments
a. gave railroad companies millions of acres of public land.
b. refused to recognize homesteader’s claims under the Homestead Act.
c. created their own public railroad companies.
d. passed laws setting minimum wages for those willing to work in the railroad industry.
23. In his 1893 essay “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” Frederick Jackson Turner
argued that
a. the frontier harmed democracy because of the lack of law enforcement in frontier areas.
b. the presence of a frontier was a unique feature of American democracy, but that the frontier had
vanished by 1890.
c. frontier warfare was responsible for the worldwide military superiority of the U.S. Army by 1890.
d. Manifest Destiny was a morally bankrupt concept.
24. During the post-Civil War years the cattle and mining industries
a. were responsible for increasing class conflict in the American West.
b. failed miserably after an initial boom.
c. were characterized by individual entrepreneurs prevailing over big business.
d. created opportunities for large corporations to profit from the western frontier.
25. The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the result of
a. white intrusion into land reserved for Native American reservations in Oklahoma.
b. Native American attacks of railroad construction crews.
c. the discovery of gold in the Black Hills, a sacred area for Native Americans.
d. the breaking of a treaty by Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest.
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On the lines below, list the five most famous American women, excluding President’s wives.
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