Civil War

Question 1

What invention led to the growth of slavery in the South?

Accepted Answer

Cotton Gin

Question 2

Which of the following examples are ways southern states attempted to restrict voting rights for African Americans?

Accepted Answer

Arresting Voters, Poll taxes, Poll tests

Question 3

Which of the following Supreme Court Cases ended segregation on public transportation?

Accepted Answer

Bailey VS Patterson

Question 4

What was the final event leading to the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Attack on Fort Sumter

Question 5

Why did many African Americans end up living similarly to the way they did under slavery after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

They had no money to move away, They had few skills to do other jobs

Question 6

Abolitionists wanted to keep slavery

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Who was the leader of the Confederate Army?

Accepted Answer

Robert E. Lee

Question 8

What is the term used to describe someone who was against slavery?

Accepted Answer

Abolitionist

Question 9

What doe Title IV protect in the Civil Rights Act?

Accepted Answer

Discrimination at school

Question 10

What was the name of the announcement made by Lincoln that freed all southern slaves?

Accepted Answer

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 11

What is the era in the south AFTER the Civil War called?

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction

Question 12

Which of the following was NOT a reason southerners supported slavery?

Accepted Answer

they believed slaves were intelligent and needed to be taken advantage of

Question 13

What General made a "march to the sea" to crush the Confederate army?

Accepted Answer

William Sherman

Question 14

Which Amendment guaranteed equal protection of the Constitution to African Americans?

Accepted Answer

14

Question 15

This Civil Rights Activist believed in action and disrupting the system to achieve change.

Accepted Answer

WEB DuBois

Question 16

What were laws/rules designed to keep rights and freedoms of African Americans limited in the south called?

Accepted Answer

Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws

Question 17

Giving all black men the right to vote as former slaves was written in which Amendment?

Accepted Answer

15th

Question 18

True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation led to thousands of former slaves Joining the Northern army

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

Who was President of the US during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 20

Which of the following people was an Abolitionist and former slave?

Accepted Answer

Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass

Question 21

Which of the following was not part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Accepted Answer

banning slavery

Question 22

Which of the following was NOT an advantage of the North?

Accepted Answer

Fighting a defensive war

Question 23

This Legislation directly led to Bleeding Kansas.

Accepted Answer

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 24

Which of the following was NOT a result of the Missouri Compromise?

Accepted Answer

Banished Slavery Forever

Question 25

Which reason BEST explains why the casualty count became so high in the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

New technology and old tactics led to a high body count

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