1965 Alabama Literacy Test
DO NOT WRITE ANYWHERE ON THIS TEST
You have 10 minutes to complete this exam.
Your answers MUST BE IN ENGLISH
If you miss more than two (2) questions, your Socratic Discussion Paragraphs are due TOMORROW.
1. If a person is indicted for a crime, name two rights which he has.
2. A U.S. Senator elected in November takes office the following year on what date?
3. A person appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court is appointed for a term of
.
4. Does enumeration affect the income tax levied on citizens in various states?
5. Persons opposed to swearing in an oath may say, instead "I solemnly
”.
6. What words are required by law to be on all coins and paper currency?
7. A U.S. Senator is elected for how many years?
8. Appropriation of money for the armed services can be only for a period of how many years?
9. The number of representatives which a state is entitled to have in the House of Representatives is based
on what?
10. Name two things which the states are forbidden to do by the U.S. Constitution.
11. If a person flees from justice into another state, who has the authority to ask for his return?
12. How many votes must a person receive in order to become President if the election is decided by the US
Senate?
13. Name the two (2) levels of government which can levy taxes.
14. If it were proposed to join Alabama and Mississippi to form one state, which groups would have to vote
approval in order for this to be done?
15. Name two (2) purposes of the U.S. Constitution.
adapted from http://www.binghamton.edu/ctah/Horton/Horton2.html
Reconstruction Socratic Discussion ?s
If you answered more than 2 questions wrong, your paragraph answers are due TOMORROW.
Your final answers must legible on a separate page.
Literal (1-4 sentences/bullets)
1. How did Amendments 13, 14, & 15 help African Americans?
2. How did John Wilkes Booth affect Reconstruction?
3. What legal loopholes did Southerners create to resist African American equality?
Inferential (4-12 sentences)
4. How would Reconstruction have been different under Lincoln?
5. How did Southerners feel about Reconstruction?
6. Did carpetbaggers help or hurt Reconstruction?
7. Was it fair for scalawags to be considered traitors by other Southerners?
8. How did the Ku Klux Klan affect Reconstruction?
9. Which Southern loophole was the worst?
Evaluative (6-12 sentences)
10. Was slavery or sharecropping worse for workers?
11. Was Reconstruction a success or a failure?
12. Did Reconstruction make life better or worse for African Americans?
ADV/Bonus: How would America have been different from 1877 to today if Reconstruction had been totally
successful?
1965 Alabama Literacy Test
DO NOT WRITE ANYWHERE ON THIS TEST
You have 10 minutes to complete this exam.
Your answers MUST BE IN ENGLISH
If you miss more than two (2) questions, your Socratic Discussion Paragraphs are due TOMORROW
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adapted from http://www.binghamton.edu/ctah/Horton/Horton2.html
Reconstruction Socratic Discussion ?s
If you answered more than 2 questions wrong, your paragraph answers are due TOMORROW.
Your final answers must legible on a separate page.
Literal (1-4 sentences/bullets)
1. How did Amendments 13, 14, & 15 help African Americans?
2. How did John Wilkes Booth affect Reconstruction?
3. What legal loopholes did Southerners create to resist African American equality?
Inferential (4-12 sentences)
4. How would Reconstruction have been different under Lincoln?
5. How did Southerners feel about Reconstruction?
6. Did carpetbaggers help or hurt Reconstruction?
7. Was it fair for scalawags to be considered traitors by other Southerners?
8. How did the Ku Klux Klan affect Reconstruction?
9. Which Southern loophole was the worst?
Evaluative (6-12 sentences)
10. Was slavery or sharecropping worse for workers?
11. Was Reconstruction a success or a failure?
12. Did Reconstruction make life better or worse for African Americans?
ADV/Bonus: How would America have been different from 1877 to today if Reconstruction had been totally
successful?
Journal Page 125 (right side)
Voting (10 minutes)
Silently respond to the prompt the entire time.
Journal entries need to be a full page in your composition book (no skipping lines).
You need to use complete sentences and paragraphs (no bullets).
1 Which version of the test did you get? Why did you get this version?
Describe your feelings/reactions about your test.
Was it fair? Why or why not?
Describe your feelings/reactions to how your instructor treated you
and/or others during the test.
1 What was the purpose of this test?
Who would be least likely to “pass” this test? Why?
What was your score out of 15?
Is it fair to use understanding of government documents (like the
Constitution) as a literacy (ability to read) test? Why or why not?
What should the requirements be for someone to vote in a local
and national elections?
Vocabulary
black codes – laws passed in Southern states that limited the freedom of former slaves during Reconstruction.
Throughout the South blacks could not meet alone in groups, carry guns, and had to work on a plantation if
they didn’t have written proof of a job.
Jim Crow laws – laws passed in Southern states that enforced segregation (separation) of white and black
people in public places. After Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” schools, restrooms, and public
transportation were very common.