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About This Drill
AP African American Studies: Reconstruction: Amendments, the Freedmen’s Bureau, and Black Life — Drill 16 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
Test your knowledge of the Reconstruction era with these AP African American Studies practice questions covering the Reconstruction Amendments, the Freedmen's Bureau, and Black political and social life after the Civil War. Ideal AP exam prep for Unit 3.
Passage
“The education of freedpeople is a matter of pressing necessity. Without the ability to read and to understand the laws of the land, they cannot protect their rights or improve their condition. The Bureau has established schools across the South, yet opposition from former slaveholders remains severe, and funding from Congress is uncertain.”
— Report of a Freedmen’s Bureau agent, South Carolina, 1866
Questions in This Drill
- According to the Freedmen’s Bureau agent’s report, what was the primary purpose of establishing schools for freedpeople?
- The conditions described in the source — opposition from former slaveholders and uncertain congressional funding — most directly foreshadowed which of the following outcomes?
- Which of the following best explains the significance of the Fourteenth Amendment for African Americans during Reconstruction?
- Which of the following best supports the argument that Reconstruction represented a significant but incomplete transformation in the lives of African Americans in the South?
- Compared to the Black Codes enacted by Southern states after the Civil War, the Reconstruction Amendments were primarily intended to