AP®︎ US History: Topic 5.11 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 5.11 of AP US History – Failure of Reconstruction.
Questions List
Topic 5.11
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: KC-5.3.II.E
What was one of the main loopholes in the Reconstruction Amendments?
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Topic 5.11: Failure of Reconstruction
Thematic Focus: American and National IdentityNAT
The development of and debates about democracy, freedom, citizenship, diversity, and individualism shape American national identity, cultural values, and beliefs about American exceptionalism, and in turn, these ideas shape political institutions and society. Throughout American history, notions of national identity and culture have coexisted with varying degrees of regional and group identities.
Learning Objective: Unit 5: Learning Objective L
Explain how and why Reconstruction resulted in continuity and change in regional and national understandings of what it meant to be American.
Historical Developments: KC-5.3.II.D
Southern plantation owners continued to own the majority of the region’s land even after Reconstruction. Formerly enslaved persons sought land ownership but generally fell short of self-sufficiency, as an exploitative and soil-intensive sharecropping system limited blacks’ and poor whites’ access to land in the South.
Historical Developments: KC-5.3.II.E
Segregation, violence, Supreme Court decisions, and local political tactics progressively stripped away African American rights, but the 14th and 15th amendments eventually became the basis for court decisions upholding civil rights in the 20th century.
