EOC Review #2: Civil War & Reconstruction

EOC Review #2: Civil War & Reconstruction

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1) According to the graph, what

was the Confederacy’s

strongest resource at the start

of the Civil War?

A) transportation

B) exportation of products

C) banking system

D) farmland

(Enter your answer on next slide)

Multiple Choice

1) According to the graph, what was the Confederacy’s strongest resource at the start of the Civil War?

• transportation

• exportation of products

• banking system

• farmland

Multiple Choice

2) What was a result of the tension between President Andrew Johnson and the Radical Republicans over Reconstruction?

• The House of Representatives impeached President Johnson.

• The Senate convicted President Johnson.

• President Johnson ran for re-election in 1868.

• President Johnson did not finish his presidential term.

Multiple Choice

3) What did Radical Republicans support as part of the plan for Reconstruction?

• the return of Confederate leaders to the offices they held before the Civil War

• a guarantee of the right to vote for African Americans

• the enactment of black codes limiting African Americans’ rights

• amnesty to all former citizens of the Confederacy

Multiple Choice

4) Which event triggered South Carolina’s secession from the United States?

• the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford

• the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• the application of California for statehood

• the election of President Lincoln

Multiple Choice

5) Why did Northerners head for Kansas after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854?

• They wanted to set up an anti-slavery majority there.

• They wanted to claim the rich farmland found in the territory.

• They wanted to get the jobs that would be created there.

• They wanted to prevent the Southern states from seceding.

Multiple Choice

6) How did the enforcement of Jim Crow laws after the Civil War most affect the lives of minority groups?

• by maintaining minorities as second class citizens

• by supporting businesses owned by minority groups

• by encouraging collaboration between minority groups

• by establishing guidelines to obtain suffrage for minorities

Multiple Choice

7) What amendment does the excerpt below refer to?

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

• Tenth Amendment

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

Multiple Choice

8) According to President Lincoln, what would be the purpose of fighting a civil war?

“. . . In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it.”

—Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 1861

• to prevent the spread of slavery

• to punish the Southern aggressors

• to preserve the United States as one nation

• to make slavery illegal in the United States

9) What is the best title for this chart?

A) End of the Civil War

B) The Civil War Continues

C) Elements of Reconstruction

D) The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments

(Enter your answer on next slide)

Multiple Choice

9) What is the best title for this chart?

• End of Civil War

• Civil War Continues

• Elements of Reconstruction

• Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments

Multiple Choice

10) On March 3, 1845, Florida joined the Union as a slave state, while Iowa became a free state. This entrance into the Union as a pair was required under what document?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Anaconda Plan

• Dred Scott Decision

Multiple Choice

11) Chief Justice Taney’s ruling in the Dred Scott case was based on which of the following principles?

• Since slaves did not pay taxes on their property, they had no legal rights.

• Because Scott had returned to a slave state, he was still a slave.

• Since Congress was unable to define slavery, they could not regulate it.

• Slaves were property, therefore they could not sue in courts