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 37 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 30 min 27 points0/17 attempted
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Mexican Cession (1848)

2

Mexican-American War (1846–48)

3

Free Soil Party

4

Crittenden Compromise (1860)

5

Gettysburg Address

6

Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858)

7

Caning of Charles Sumner (1856)

8

54th Massachusetts

9

Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

10

Gettysburg and Vicksburg (1863)

11

Contraband policy

12

Ku Klux Klan

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Fourteenth Amendment (1868)

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Compromise of 1877

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Thirteenth Amendment (1865)

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Presidential Reconstruction

3 pts

Free response

3 pts

SHORT-ANSWER QUESTION 4 (choose this or SAQ 3). No stimulus.

A. Briefly describe one political development during Reconstruction from 1865 to 1877.

B. Briefly describe one effect of the end of Reconstruction from 1877 to 1900.

C. Briefly explain how one group responded to debates about the federal government from 1900 to 1945.