Unit 5: Period 5: 1844–1877
US History · Unit 5 · Paper 1

Period 5: 1844–1877 unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 23 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 5, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 30 min 27 points0/17 attempted
1

Black Codes

2

Sharecropping

3

John Brown's raid (1859)

4

Gettysburg Address

5

Compromise of 1877

6

Ku Klux Klan

7

Election of 1860

8

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

9

Freedmen's Bureau

10

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

11

Thirteenth Amendment (1865)

12

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Gettysburg and Vicksburg (1863)

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Mexican-American War (1846–48)

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858)

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Compromise of 1850

3 pts

Free response

3 pts

Answer the questions about Reconstruction.

Briefly describe ONE specific goal of Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction.

Briefly explain ONE specific reason Reconstruction failed to secure lasting equality for freedpeople.

Briefly explain ONE specific lasting achievement of Reconstruction.