24-25 Civil War & Reconstruction Test

Front

This means that the people get to decide on an issue, including whether or not to allow slavery in their territory

Back

Popular Sovereignty

Front

Who was president of the Confederate States during the war?

Back

Jefferson Davis

Front

The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this fort on April 12, 1861

Back

Fort Sumter

Front

What Amendment grants citizenship to all person born on American soil except for Native Americans.

Back

14th Amendment

Front

Sharecropping and Tenant Farming is:

Back

A system of farming that left freed slaves and poor whites in debt to wealthy land owners and tied to the land

Front

What laws sought to restrict the freedoms of African Americans after slavery ended and they become the basis of Jim Crow Laws?

Back

Black Codes

Front

Slavery is outlawed in the US by this amendment:

Back

13th Amendment

Front

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation actually freed?

Back

Only the slaves in the Confederacy, because slaves in the Union had already been freed

Front

In the beginning of the war, what was the main aim of the North?

Back

to save the Union

Front

How did the use of the strategy illustrated in the map provide one side with an advantage in the Civil War?

Back

It gave the Union an advantage by limiting the Confederacy's ability to export cash crops.