Practice Test Answers

Which discipline helps us to understand the past by studying the physical features of the environment?

Under the system of sharecropping, contracts usually favored

What was the important precedent set by the Gitlow v. New York case?

Why did Congress pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

The North’s Anaconda Plan was based on

In the 1850s, the term “Bleeding Kansas” referred to

After the Civil War, the federal government began to extend civil rights to African Americans by

The tract of land the United States received at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 was called

As the Civil War began, the South’s strategy was to

Which of these is the most common characteristic of a political map?

Under Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction, what percentage of a state’s population had to swear an oath of loyalty to the Union for the state to be readmitted?

The Supreme Court’s ruling in the civil rights cases of 1883 led to