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1
Which amendment gave citizenship and full Constitutional rights to freed slaves?
18th
13th
10th
14th
2
What is the correct order: Kansas-Nebraska Act, Compromise of 1850, Missouri Compromise
KA-NE Act, Compromise of 1850, Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, KA-NE Act
KA-NE Act, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850, Missouri Compromise, KA-NE Act
3
What ended the Reconstruction Era?
The Election of 1860
The Compromise of 1877
The Industrial Revolution
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
4
The Union gained control over the Mississippi River after winning this 47 day long battle.
Fort Sumter
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Antietam
5
What was the outcome of the Dred Scott decision?
Visiting a northern free state made Dred Scott free.
Slaves were citizens and Dred Scott was set free.
Slaves were not citizens, they were property.
Returning to a slave state set him free.
6
Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction were known as:
Invader
Carpetbagger
Interloper
Scalawag
7
What was the goal of the Abolitionist Movement?
End slavery
Increase the number of Southern factories
Improve prison conditions
Ban alcohol use
8
What did the 13th Amendment to the Constitution do?
Ban slavery
Freedom of speech
Give voting rights to freedmen
Give women the right to vote
9
Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in this town in Virginia.
Antietam
Appomattox Court House
Richmond
Atlanta
10
This was one of the advantages that the North had at the beginning of the Civil War.
More cotton to sell overseas
More factories, supplies and railroads
Experienced Soldiers
More experienced military leadership
11
What is the name of this strategy which describes the Union blockade of, then split the Confederacy?
The Anaconda Plan
Scott's Great Snake Plan
The Boa Constrictor
The Big Squeeze
12
Which term best describes a poor farmer who gives a part of his crop as rent?
Scalawag
Carpetbagger
Freedman
Sharecropper
13
Missouri entered the Union as a...
northern state
free state
slave state
territory
14
Why did the South object to California's admission to the Union?
It would upset the balance of power in Congress
It would upset the balance in the Senate
It would hurt trade with Europe
The South did not object to California's admission
15
He was the commander of the Union Army at the end of the Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Thomas Jackson
Jefferson Davis
16
Sectional differences in the US during the early 1800s were mostly rooted in differences about..
Social Factors
Geographic Factors
Politics
Economics
17
The 15th amendment to the Constitution prohibits state governments from -
allowing slavery
seceding from the Union
allowing women to vote
denying the right to vote based on race
18
What is significant about General William T. Sherman’s March to the Sea?
He divided the Confederacy
He employed total war
He refused to burn food sources that the Confederates could use
He skirted around cities and towns to avoid fights.
19
The North favored a _________ while the South favored a _____________.
low tariff; low tariff
low tariff; high tariff
high tariff; low tariff
high tariff; high tariff
20
What was the main idea behind Lincoln's 10% Plan?
Allowing slavery to spread into the Kansas Territory
"With malace towards none..." Amnesty (forgiveness) for rebels
Punishment for ex-Confederate leaders
Blocking legislation written by Radical Republicans
21
Southerners who supported Reconstruction were known as:
Traitors
Radical Republicans
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
22
A statement issued by Lincoln that freed slaves in Confederate states at war with the Union.
13th ammendment
Gettysburg Address
Freedom Speech
Emancipation Proclamation
23
He was the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Dred Scott
Ulysses S. Grant
24
What part of the Compromise of 1850 pleased Southerners?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Act
Escaped Black Codes
Slave Reacquistion Act
25
When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal?
To punish the South
To preserve the Union
To abolish slavery
To contain slavery
26
What was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Keep African-Americans in the South safe.
Intimidate African-Americans in the South to make them too afraid to vote
Keep peace between Southern blacks and whites
Intimidate poor whites into not voting
27
Lincoln suspended ________ to deal with dissent (dissatisfaction) in the Union states.
Harsh sentences for draft dodgers
Conscription for men over the age of 35
Disenfranchisement
The writ of habeas corpus
28
What was the South's main resource?
textiles
rice
wheat
cotton
29
Which state was added as part of the Compromise of 1850?
Maine
Missouri
Oregon
California
30
Which was NOT part of the Union's strategy for defeating the Confederacy?
Atlantic Blockade
Ask Great Britain for help
Gain control of Mississippi River
Attack from East and West
31
A speech given by President Lincoln in 1863 at the site of a famous battlefield.
Vicksburg Address
Emancipation Proclamation
Antietam Address
Gettysburg Address
32
In 1859 this abolitionist raided Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to incite (cause) a slave insurrection.
John Brown
Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
William Lloyd Garrison
33
What is sectionalism?
Putting your region ahead of the nation.
Putting the nation ahead of your region.
Putting the nation ahead of your state.
Putting your state ahead of the nation.
34
What the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 establish or do?
Reaffirmed the Missouri Compromise
Admitted Kansas to the Union as a slave state.
Resulted in violence
Established popular sovereignty
35
Which was the first state to secede?
Georgia
Alabama
Texas
South Carolina
36
What was the nickname for the unofficial war in the Kansas territory?
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas Range War
The Dark Days
Burning Kansas
37
He led a violent slave uprising in Virginia in 1831.
Eli Whitney
Henry Clay
Nat Turner
John Brown
38
The Radical Republicans impeached President Andrew Johnson, because he -
Opposed poll taxes and literacy tests
was working with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Lincoln
continued to veto (reject) Congress' Reconstruction laws
created the Ku Klux Klan
39
What organization aided freed African Americans by providing food, clothes and education during Reconstruction?
The 15th Amendment
Historical Black Colleges
The Freedman's Bureau
The KKK
40
Why did the South think they'd win the war at first?
More food
More factories and resources
Experienced military leadership
More railroads
41
What three day battled resulted in a Union victory and is the major turning point of the War?
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Gettysburg
42
Which group held power in Congress during Reconstruction and wanted to punish the South?
Whigs
Radical Republicans
Federalists
Democrats
43
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that were meant to keep ex-Confederates out of office
Southern state laws that segregated blacks in public areas
Federal laws abolishing slavery
Southern state laws intended to punish scalawags
44
For what is the Battle of Antietam known?
The battle in which General Sherman was killed
The battle that ended the war
The battle that began the war
The bloodiest single day of the war
45
This method of warfare involves destroying the opposing army's resources and will to fight.
mass destruction
Sherman's warfare
trench warfare
total war
46
What name was given to the state laws that limited the rights of the freedmen?
The Black Codes
Habeas Corpus
The Reconstruction Act
The 10% Plan
