Civil War & Reconstruction Test

Which term describes Southern whites who supported Radical Reconstruction?

Belief that the states had more power than the federal government and didn’t have to obey federal laws

Black Codes restrict the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force

Who were the two groups that partook in the Civil war

15 Amendment...

laws that established segregation & separation of the races and reinforced discrimination and prejudices held by whites

How many states were confederate

What was the main cause of the Civil War

Sharecropping a system which freedmen rented land from a landowner by paying the owner with a share of the crop

What is the 13 amendment?

How did many Southern states work around the voting rights guaranteed in the Fifteenth Amendment?

What years did the Civil War last

Abraham Lincoln supported the____

Jim Crow laws…

What was the primary purpose of the Reconstruction period following the Civil War?

Who did the Fifteenth Amendment formally grant the right to vote in 1870?

After the Civil War, many former slaves celebrated their freedom by

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution barred states from restricting the right to vote based on race?

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

Freedmens Bureau

 Underground Railroad U.S. government agency that was formed after the Civil War to help freed slaves

Which side claimed to fight for state's rights?

Lee Urged Southerners to reconcile with Northerners at the end of the war and reunite as Americans

Laws that Southern governments enacted after the Civil War to restrict the economic freedom of African Americans?

Jim Crow Laws - laws that punished African Americans (usually by separating them from whites)

KKK was know as

People who wanted to end slavery

Which of the following best summarizes President Lincoln’s attitude toward the policies and process of Reconstruction?

40acre & a mule a system of farming where plantation owners lend former slaves a place to live in exchange for crops

Period after the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild & bring Southern states back into the Union

Which U.S. president began the era known as Presidential Reconstruction?

Which of these states would likely be Confederate

Harriet Tubman was

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in Tennessee after the passage of the

Why is Gettysburg a turning point in the Civil War?

Most Union States were on the _______part of the country 

What is boycott?

Who won the American Civil War?

14 amendment

What were black codes?

Which of these states is apart of the Union

Robert E. Lee

Who was the president in office during the civil war?

A government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African-Americans 

The purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau was to free slaves from Southern plantations