Unit 5: Period 5: 1844–1877
US History · Unit 5 · Paper 3

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 3” 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

Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858)

2

Compromise of 1877

3

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

4

Radical Reconstruction

5

Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

6

Thirteenth Amendment (1865)

7

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

8

Election of 1860

9

Black Codes

10

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

11

Popular sovereignty

12

Ku Klux Klan

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

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Gettysburg and Vicksburg (1863)

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Freedmen's Bureau

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.