Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898
US History · Unit 6 · Paper 1

Period 6: 1865–1898 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 38 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 6, 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 33 min 30 points0/17 attempted
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Poll tax

2

Understanding clause

3

Populist Party

4

Social Darwinism

5

Civil Rights Cases (1883)

6

Granger laws

7

Wounded Knee (1890)

8

Booker T. Washington

9

Gospel of Wealth

10

Grandfather clause

11

Dawes Act (1887)

12

W. E. B. Du Bois

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Ida B. Wells

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Convict leasing

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Vertical integration

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Political machines

3 pts

Free response

6 pts

LONG ESSAY QUESTION (option 3 of 3). Evaluate how different reform movements in the United States responded to industrialization from 1820 to 1900. In your response you should: state a historically defensible thesis; describe broader historical context; support an argument using at least two pieces of specific and relevant evidence; use historical reasoning (comparison, causation, continuity or change over time); and demonstrate complex understanding.