Pearson Connexus: African American History Unit 5 Quiz; Unit 5: Freedom and Reconstruction

Question

What happened as a result of the Southern Homestead Act of 1866?

Public land was given to some African Americans.

Former slaves were allowed to work their own land.

Parcels of 40-acres in South Carolina and Florida were given to Blacks.

2.
Who were the carpetbaggers?

white Republicans

white Democrats

traveling historians

3.
Independent Black churches began springing up in the 1770s, but most of them had splintered off of white congregations. What was significant about the establishment of the African Methodist Episcopal Church?

It was the first independent Black church that wasn’t Baptist.

It allowed white members into the congregation.

It was the first social institution entirely under African American control.

4.
Who was General Ulysses S. Grant?

head of the Confederate troops

founder of the Ku Klux Klan

head of the Union troops

5.
After the Civil War, the US government provided public land to freed slaves through the:

Black codes.

Port Royal Experiment.

Southern Homestead Act of 1866.

6.
At the end of the Civil War, Simon along with other African Americans, found himself free. While that should have been reason for celebration, life wasn’t exactly easy because everything was so unfamiliar. What is one of the things Simon might have struggled with?

deciding what to wear

getting an education

selling his property

7.
What is an integrated school?

school for both Black and white students

school for both parents and students

school for financial education

8.
Who succeeded President Lincoln after his assassination in April 1865?

Millard Fillmore

James Buchanan

Andrew Johnson

9.
If you attended a Black church after the Civil War, what might you expect to hear on a Sunday morning in addition to a sermon about Jesus?

political speeches

Jazz music

speeches by white leaders

10.
Why was the coalition of Radical Republicans formed?

to keep African Americans enslaved

to incorporate African Americans into the free world

to uphold pro-slavery legislation

11.
Mary Peake, a former slave, was famous for what accomplishment?

attending school in the District of Columbia

opening a school in Hampton, VA

being a member of the US Congress

12.
Who created departments of "Negro Affairs" during the war?

African American Veterans

President Lincoln

the Freedmen’s Bureau

13.
What was the system called where African Americans worked the land in exchange for a portion of the final crop?

sharecropping

carpetbagging

suffrage

14.
What was the set of laws called that restricted the rights of free African Americans?

Black Codes

Reconstruction Acts

The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments

15.
Why was President Johnson impeached in 1868?

trying to change the Constitution

fighting to grant civil rights and access to services to freed slaves

fighting to keep civil rights and access to services away from freed slaves

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