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 37 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
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Confiscation Acts (1861, 1862)

2

Election of 1860

3

Caning of Charles Sumner (1856)

4

Sharecropping

5

Presidential Reconstruction

6

Mexican Cession (1848)

7

Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858)

8

54th Massachusetts

9

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (1868)

10

United States Colored Troops

11

Popular sovereignty

12

Thirteenth Amendment (1865)

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Wilmot Proviso (1846)

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Free Soil Party

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Self-emancipation

3 pts

Free response

3 pts

Short Answer Question (SAQ):

Briefly describe ONE specific cause of the Civil War in the period 1848–1861.

Briefly describe ONE specific way sectional tensions over slavery increased in that period.

Briefly explain ONE effect of the Civil War on the status of formerly enslaved people during Reconstruction (1865–1877).