American Government and Politics Today, 19th Edition Lynne E. Ford – Test Bank

1. Where can the provision which states that all persons born in the United States are citizens be found?

  a.  In the Thirteenth Amendment

  b.  In the Fourteenth Amendment

  c.  In the Fifteenth Amendment

  d.  In the Nineteenth Amendment

  e.  In the Declaration of Independence

ANSWER:   b

POINTS:   1

DIFFICULTY:   Easy
Bloom’s: Remember/Understand

REFERENCES:   African Americans and the Consequences of Slavery in the United States

QUESTION TYPE:   Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES:   False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   10.1.1 – Identify the ways in which the post-Civil War era was similar to what preceded it.
7 – Describe the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

STATE STANDARDS:   United States – TX – Social Responsibility (SR) – Intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities.

DATE CREATED:   1/21/2021 6:29 AM

DATE MODIFIED:   1/21/2021 6:31 AM

2. What did the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolish?

  a.  Slavery

  b.  Segregation laws which had come before it

  c.  Restrictions on due process

  d.  Slavery in new states or territories

  e.  Restrictions on the right to vote

ANSWER:   a

POINTS:   1

DIFFICULTY:   Easy
Bloom’s: Remember/Understand

REFERENCES:   African Americans and the Consequences of Slavery in the United States

QUESTION TYPE:   Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES:   False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   10.1.1 – Identify the ways in which the post-Civil War era was similar to what preceded it.
7 – Describe the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

STATE STANDARDS:   United States – TX – Social Responsibility (SR) – Intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities.

DATE CREATED:   1/21/2021 6:31 AM

DATE MODIFIED:   1/21/2021 6:34 AM

3. What are Jim Crow laws?

  a.  Laws that established slavery and contract law regulating the slave trade

  b.  Laws that justified slavery and set specific codes for the behavior of slaves

  c.  Laws that the North enforced in the South during the Reconstruction era

  d.  Laws that were enacted by southern whites in the late nineteenth century to establish segregation policies

  e.  Laws that sought to end segregation by bringing the races into closer contact with one another

ANSWER:   d

POINTS:   1

DIFFICULTY:   Easy
Bloom’s: Remember/Understand

REFERENCES:   African Americans and the Consequences of Slavery in the United States

QUESTION TYPE:   Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES:   False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   10.1.1 – Identify the ways in which the post-Civil War era was similar to what preceded it.
7 – Describe the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

STATE STANDARDS:   United States – TX – Social Responsibility (SR) – Intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities.

DATE CREATED:   1/21/2021 6:36 AM

DATE MODIFIED:   2/4/2021 4:18 AM

4. Which amendment forbade the states from denying any person “equal protection under the law”?

  a.  Tenth

  b.  Twelfth

  c.  Thirteenth

  d.  Fourteenth

  e.  Fifteenth

ANSWER:   d

POINTS:   1

DIFFICULTY:   Easy
Bloom’s: Remember/Understand

REFERENCES:   African Americans and the Consequences of Slavery in the United States

QUESTION TYPE:   Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES:   False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   10.1.1 – Identify the ways in which the post-Civil War era was similar to what preceded it.
7 – Describe the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

STATE STANDARDS:   United States – TX – Social Responsibility (SR) – Intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities.

DATE CREATED:   1/22/2021 6:34 AM

DATE MODIFIED:   1/22/2021 6:36 AM

5. In 1863, during the Civil War, what did President Abraham Lincoln do to make slavery illegal?

  a.  Signed the Missouri Compromise

  b.  Issued the Emancipation Proclamation

  c.  Vetoed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

  d.  Passed the Eleventh Amendment

  e.  Declared martial law

ANSWER:   b

POINTS:   1

DIFFICULTY:   Easy
Bloom’s: Remember/Understand

REFERENCES:   African Americans and the Consequences of Slavery in the United States

QUESTION TYPE:   Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES:   False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   10.1.1 – Identify the ways in which the post-Civil War era was similar to what preceded it.
7 – Describe the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

STATE STANDARDS:   United States – TX – Social Responsibility (SR) – Intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities.

DATE CREATED:   1/21/2021 6:39 AM

DATE MODIFIED:   1/21/2021 6:42 AM

6. Which of the following prohibited slavery in the United States?

  a.  Article V

  b.  Article IV

  c.  The Fifteenth Amendment

  d.  The Tenth Amendment

  e.  The Thirteenth Amendment

ANSWER:   e

POINTS:   1

DIFFICULTY:   Easy
Bloom’s: Remember/Understand

REFERENCES:   African Americans and the Consequences of Slavery in the United States

QUESTION TYPE:   Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES:   False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:   10.1.1 – Identify the ways in which the post-Civil War era was similar to what preceded it.
7 – Describe the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

STATE STANDARDS:   United States – TX – Social Responsibility (SR) – Intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities.

DATE CREATED:   1/21/2021 6:42 AM

DATE MODIFIED:   1/21/2021 6:45 AM

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