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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Amendment Abolished Slavery?
(a) The 13th.
(b) The 16th.
(c) The 19th.
(d) The 12th.

2. What act was passed in 1867 in response to the rise of the KKK?
(a) The Implementation Act.
(b) The Enforcement Act.
(c) The Anti-Racism Act.
(d) The Encroachment Act.

3. Which Supreme Court decision stated that African Americans could not be citizens of the United States?
(a) The Dred Scott Decision.
(b) The Simon Johnson Decision.
(c) The Ossian Sweet Decision.
(d) The Frederick Douglass Decision.

4. What oath, devised by Congress in 1862, did Andrew Johnson ignore in order to pardon Confederates?
(a) Hippocratic Oath.
(b) Oath of Allegiance.
(c) Oath of office.
(d) Iron Clad Test Oath.

5. Who became president after Lincoln was assassinated?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Lyndon Johnson.
(c) Andrew Johnson.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was the KKK founded?

2. To what country did the American Colonization Society move thousands of newly freed people?

3. What year did the Civil War begin?

4. Which Congressman said that the 13th Amendment was designed to do more than “confer the bare privilege or not being chained” (9)?

5. What year did Dr. Sweet move into a white neighborhood?

(see the answer key)

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