Civil War & Reconstruction Review

Question 1

Why did Georgia expel its black legislators?

Accepted Answer

Said GA constitution denied blacks right to political office

Question 2

Who only contributed labor to the farm?

Accepted Answer

Sharecropping

Question 3

What did the Ku Klux Klan want to accomplish by its terrorizing of blacks during this period?

Accepted Answer

Control them & return gov't power to White Democrats

Question 4

Which American document led to the freedom of slaves in territories rebelling against the Union?

Accepted Answer

The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 5

Henry McNeal Turner was expelled from his seat in the Georgia state legislature on the grounds that he did not...?

Accepted Answer

have the right to hold political office in the first place

Question 6

What is the name of the infamous Civil War prisoner of war camp, located in Macon County, where 13,000 soldiers died?

Accepted Answer

Andersonville Prison

Question 7

The plan to cut off the Confederacy supplies by blocking the coast meant to 'choke the life out of the South' was

Accepted Answer

Anaconda Plan

Question 8

Which Reconstruction plan called for punishing the South?

Accepted Answer

Congressional

Question 9

Farmers who worked on a landowner's property, providing labor and some tools but still gave a portion of the crop away

Accepted Answer

Tenant Farmer

Question 10

What law allowed special government official to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave?

Accepted Answer

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 11

What was one Confederate victory fought in Georgia?

Accepted Answer

Chickamauga

Question 12

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in...

Accepted Answer

the states in rebellion

Question 13

Which amendment gave all men the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

15th Amendment

Question 14

Who wanted the north and the south to rejoin quickly?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 15

On what grounds were black Georgia legislators expelled from their seats during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

they did not have the right to hold public office

Question 16

March to the Sea was done by who?

Accepted Answer

William T. Sherman

Question 17

What was the name of the case that declared slaves as property?

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott Decision

Question 18

Which agency was created to help former slaves and poor whites with education and jobs?

Accepted Answer

Freedmen's Bureau

Question 19

Compared to the Radical Republicans, Lincoln's & Johnson's Reconstruction plans were more ____.

Accepted Answer

lenient (not strict at all)

Question 20

Which amendment gave all men the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

15th Amendment

Question 21

Farmers who agreed to work on a landowner's property, only providing labor, in exchange for land, farming, & equipment

Accepted Answer

Sharecropper

Question 22

Which amendment gave freed slaves U.S. Citizenship rights?

Accepted Answer

14th Amendment

Question 23

Who owned their tools and supplies?

Accepted Answer

Tenant Farming

Question 24

Who used land, tools, seeds, etc. owned by another to farm & gave them part of the crops.

Accepted Answer

sharecropper

Question 25

Who used land of another, but had their own tools, seeds, etc. & gave them part of the crops?

Accepted Answer

tenant farmer

Question 26

What year did Lincoln win the election?

Accepted Answer

1860

Question 27

Laws passed to restrict the freedoms of Freedmen.

Accepted Answer

black codes

Question 28

When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, many southern states, including Georgia, left the union or ____________.

Accepted Answer

seceded

Question 29

People who campaigned to end slavery were called what?

Accepted Answer

abolitionist

Question 30

The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act was...

Accepted Answer

require the return of the runaway slaves to their owners

Question 31

Which amendment abolished slavery?

Accepted Answer

13th Amendment

Question 32

Freedmen's Bureau was established to do what?

Accepted Answer

Help freedmen get food, medicine, and needed supplies

Question 33

The Compromise of 1850 admitted what state as a free state?

Accepted Answer

California

Question 34

Sherman's order to destroy everything usable that was left behind was meant to achieve what?

Accepted Answer

to crush the spirit of the south

Question 35

Which amendment guarantees all citizens full protection under the law?

Accepted Answer

14th Amendment

Question 36

Which Reconstruction plan called for forgiveness and unity?

Accepted Answer

Presidential

Question 37

What Union general led the northern army on its "March to the Sea" & destroyed much of the state's resources?

Accepted Answer

William T. Sherman

Question 38

Who won the Battle of Chickamauga?

Accepted Answer

Confederates

Question 39

The period of U.S. history after the Civil War is called...

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction

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