What effects did the Reconstruction amendments have on southern states?

Provided Freedmen greater access to government.

In what way did the Fugitive Slave Law and Dred Scott decision affect slaves in the mid-1800s?

Made it difficult for slaves to secure their freedom.

Before Civil War, why did slavery expand in the South rather than in the North?

Geographic conditions in South led to large plantations.

What conclusion can be drawn regarding southern class structure and slavery?

Southern culture protected the institution of slavery.

What was the outcome of the Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sanford?

The court ruled slaves were not citizens and could't sue.

Gettysburg Address is...

A speech by Lincoln to honor fallen Union soldiers.

What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War?

Kept former slaves economically dependent.

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Unit 4 Antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction

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1
Loyalty to one's own region of the country rather than to the nation as a whole is...
Socialism
Separatism
Sectionalism
Sensationalism
2
Which event facilitated the end of Reconstruction in the South?
Assassination of Lincoln.
Impeachment of Johnson.
Passage of Civil Rights Act of 1875.
Compromise of 1877.
3
Northerners who went to the South to take advantage of the situation after the Civil War.
Scalawags
Yeomen
Carpetbaggers
Opportunists
4
What is it called when a state "dissolves its relationship" with the U.S.
Temperance
Secession
Emancipation
Abolitionism
5
What effects did the Reconstruction amendments have on southern states?
Prevented African Americans from participating in elections.
Encouraged African American women to begin voting.
Provided Freedmen greater access to government.
Discouraged African Americans from joining Republican party.
6
In what way did the Fugitive Slave Law and Dred Scott decision affect slaves in the mid-1800s?
Made it easier for slaves to receive an education.
Made it difficult for slaves to secure their freedom.
Made it easier for slaves to participate in government.
Made it difficult for slaves to be moved westward.
7
These states were created by the Missouri Compromise,
Mississippi and Maine
Missouri and Maine
Missouri and Minnesota
Missouri and Montana
8
Which invention caused slavery to expand from 654,000 to 3.2 million from 1790-1850?
The cotton gin
The steamship
The mechanical reaper
The railroad
9
Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act and Compromise of 1850 all have this in common.
Voting rights for minorities.
Extension of slavery.
Enactment of tariffs.
Universal public education.
10
Before Civil War, why did slavery expand in the South rather than in the North?
Southerners refused to do the work themselves.
Northern states passed laws against segregation.
Geographic conditions in South led to large plantations.
The Constitution outlawed slavery in the North.
11
Population, infrastructure and industry are the primary advantages...
England had over the Colonies.
the South had over the North.
the North had over the South.
North Carolina had over Virginia.
12
What conclusion can be drawn regarding southern class structure and slavery?
Plantation owners made up a majority of slave owners.
Non-slave owners dictated policy in southern states.
Slavery only benefited owners in certain sections of U.S.
Southern culture protected the institution of slavery.
13
What historical figure is the focal point of the painting.
John Brown
John Henry
Robert E. Lee
GOD
14
Issued by Lincoln in 1862, it declared that all slaves in Confederate States would be free.
Election of 1860
Gettysburg Address
Constipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation
15
What historical event does this painting portray?
Bloody Mary
Bloody New Hampshire
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Kansas
16
What does the term Antebellum mean?
A person against big bellies.
A person against slavery.
A period before a war.
A period after a war.
17
Attack on this federal fort marked the beginning of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
Fort Fisher
Fort Anderson
Fort McHenry
18
What was the outcome of the Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sanford?
The court ruled slaves were not citizens and could't sue.
Dred Scott would be forced to use segregated facilities.
Dred Scott was freed and slaves were issued full rights.
Abolitionist viewed decision as victory.
19
Gettysburg Address is...
A speech by Lincoln to honor fallen Union soldiers.
Where General Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War
Where President Lincoln lived.
The place the Confederates attacked to start the Civil War.
20
What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War?
Brought investment capital to the South.
Encouraged Northerners to migrate south.
Kept former slaves economically dependent.
Provided for fairer distribution of farm profits.
21
Grandfather Clause, Poll Taxes and Literacy tests to deny rights to newly freed slaves were.
Black Codes
Klan Codes
Morse Codes
Area Codes
22
Which goal were the Reconstruction Amendments meant to reinforce?
Equality of social classes.
Expansion of states' rights.
Expansion of democracy.
Promotion of public education.

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