COMMONLIT
Text-Dependent Questions
spond in complete sentences,
Directions: For the following questions, choose the best answer or respond in com
1.
behind them and
(RI.2)
What are TWO central ideas of this text?
A Northerners and Southerners wanted to put the war quickly behind th
return to peace.
B. President Johnson wanted to punish the South for its rebellion but con
limited his power to do so.
Many Northerners wanted to punish the Southerners for their treason and
defiance.
Reconstruction ended in a stalemate, with neither the Republicans nor
Democrats wielding significant power in the South,
President Johnson was impeached for continuously working against Congress bu
not only vetoing their approved laws, but defying new approved, legal
legislation
It was fortunate that that President Johnson was not removed from office
because it would have set a dangerous precedent for American politics.
2.
B.
PART A: Which statement best describes the relationship between the Ku Klux Klan [RI.3]
and Reconstruction? [RI.3]
A. The Klan emerged to fight for stronger protection of whites against retaliating
former slaves.
The Klan formed after Reconstruction ended in order to provide structure to
disorderly states.
The Klan formed to fight against Reconstruction policies that gave citizenship
and rights to freed blacks.
The Klan formed to create terror in the Reconstruction Era South as punishment
to the ruling Southern Democrats.
3.
PART B: Which phrase from paragraph 7 best supports the answer to Part A?
[RI.1]
A. "The Klan targeted Republican leaders and blacks trying to exercise their new
rights."
"The Klan would beat, lynch, or massacre their enemies."
"Targets of the attacks looked to the federal government for protection."
D. "Entire militias formed in the South dedicated to fighting Republican
intervention"
4.
How do the Black Codes help us understand the Radical Republicans?
[RI.3)
A. Radical Republicans rose to power in order to enforce the Black Codes and racial
equality.
B. Radical Republicans rose to power to fight inequality found in institutionalized
discrimination such as slavery or the Black Codes.
C. Radical Republicans rose to power because they feared the Black Codes would
legalize slavery once again.
D. After the Black Codes were created, southern freed blacks voted Radical
Republicans into power to protect their voting rights.