Civil War Review

Question 1

The document written by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam that freed the slaves in the states of rebellion

Accepted Answer

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 2

What was the immediate cause of the secession of Southern states from the Union prior to the start of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency

Question 3

The 15th Amendment abolished slavery?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

The principal of "separate but equal" established by the Supreme Court case Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)

Accepted Answer

Justify racial segregation of public facilities

Question 5

A radical group that instilled fear into African Americans in the south

Accepted Answer

KKK

Question 6

Which Civil War event happened first?

Accepted Answer

Firing on Fort Sumter

Question 7

True or False, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were added to the Constitution during the Reconstruction Period to

Accepted Answer

Grant Legal rights to African Americans

Question 9

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause were all created to restrict voting rights for

Accepted Answer

African Americans

Question 10

Which document is considered a primary source from the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

A letter from a wife of a soldier during the war

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