Unit 5: Period 5: 1844–1877
US History · Unit 5 · Paper 2

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 2” 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 33 min 30 points0/17 attempted
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Gettysburg and Vicksburg (1863)

2

Gettysburg Address

3

Black Codes

4

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

5

Freedmen's Bureau

6

Fourteenth Amendment (1868)

7

Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858)

8

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

9

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

10

Sharecropping

11

Election of 1860

12

Radical Reconstruction

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Mexican-American War (1846–48)

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Thirteenth Amendment (1865)

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Compromise of 1850

3 pts

Free response

6 pts

Evaluate the extent to which the Civil War was a turning point in the role of the federal government in American life.