Unit 1 Civil War and Reconstruction

Reconstruction Vocabulary

Multiple Choice

Scalawag

• person against slavery

• members of congress who pushed for strict reconstruction

• White southerners who supported reconstruction and cooperated with the republican party

• Northerners who moved to the South during resconstruction seeking new opportunities

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Abolitionist

• person against slavery

• members of congress who pushed for strict reconstruction

• White southerners who supported reconstruction and cooperated with the republican party

• Northerners who moved to the South during resconstruction seeking new opportunities

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Abolitionist

• person who believed enslaved people should be freed and granted equal rights

• members of congress who pushed for strict reconstruction

• White southerners who supported reconstruction and cooperated with the republican party

• Northerners who moved to the South during resconstruction seeking new opportunities

Multiple Choice

Radical Republicans

• person against slavery

• members of congress who pushed for strict reconstruction

• White southerners who supported reconstruction and cooperated with the republican party

• Northerners who moved to the South during resconstruction seeking new opportunities

Open Ended

List the 4 main reasons the North went to war with the South in the Civil War.

Causes of the Civil War

Multiple Choice

Which event is NOT considered one of the failed compromises leading up to the Civil war?

• Kansas- Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Abolition Movement

Multiple Choice

Which event was the catalyst for the secession of the first seven southern states in 1861?

• The shipment of Union supplies to Fort Sumter

• Issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

• Passage of the higher protective tariff

• The election of Abraham Lincoln as President

Multiple Choice

What strategy does this picture illustrate?

• South's plan to sell cotton to Europe and gain them as allies

• North's plan to cut the south off from help and supplies

• South's strategy to trade with the North for supplies

• North's plan to reopen trade with the South to get cotton

Multiple Choice

Throughout the Civil War, what was an important advantage that the North had over the South?

• The North had a superior military

• The North used a strategy for fighting a defensive

• The North had greater manufacturing capability

• The North received support from Great Britain and France

Multiple Choice

Southern General from Virginia who led the South's largest army and lost a major battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• Abraham Lincoln
• Ulysses S. Grant

Multiple Choice

What was the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863?

• It declared all enslaved people in the border states free

• It was a strategic move to hurt morale and recruit Black soldiers

• It applied to all states in the Union

• It was the first document to abolish slavery

Multiple Choice

Which event declared an end to slavery in the rebel states and laid the groundwork for the 13th amendment?

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• Election of 1864

• Battle of Fort Sumter

Multiple Choice

What are the key themes presented in the Gettysburg Address by President Lincoln?

• Human equality

• Democratic governance

• War sacrifices

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Where did General Lee from the Confederate Army surrender to General Grant and the Union Army?

• Appomattox Court House

• Bull Run

• Gettysburg

• Antietam

Multiple Choice

What was one of the main consequences of the Civil War?

• Economic growth in the North

• Citizenship expanded to include African Americans

• Increased tensions between southern states

• Formation of new political parties

Multiple Choice

After the Civil War, the South attempted to shift from an agrarian economy to what type of economy?

• Agricultural

• Industrial

• Sharecropping

• Debt Peonage

Issues with Reconstruction

Multiple Choice

What impact did Radical Republicans in Congress have on Reconstruction? 

• They opposed the passage of the Fourteenth amendment.  

• They encouraged the freedmen to exercise their new political rights. 

• They persuaded President Johnson to pardon former Confederate leaders. 

• They prevented President Johnson from sending federal troops to the South.  

Multiple Choice

Which is the best description of Reconstruction?

• rebuilding the US after a big earthquake

• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War

• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War

• unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

Multiple Choice

During Reconstruction, Republicans disagreed on several issues, including loyalty oaths, the ratification of the Reconstruction amendments, and the use of military districts in the South. Which of the following was another issue that divided Republicans during Reconstruction?

• The Fugitive slave act

• Punishing former confederates

• Reversing the 13th amendment

• Preserving the Confederate States of America

Multiple Choice

Each state had to ratify the 13th Amendment before being re-admitted to the Union.

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Congressional Reconstruction Plan

Multiple Choice

Established 5 military districts in the South.

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Congressional Reconstruction Plan

Multiple Choice

Wanted Reconstruction to be a fast process that did not severely punish the South. The plan offered amnesty to nearly all confederates who took a loyalty oath.

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Congressional Reconstruction Plan

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Radical Republicans did not like this plan because they felt that it was not hard enough on the South and that it did not do enough to protect the rights of newly freed African Americans.

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Congressional Reconstruction Plan

Multiple Choice

Southern states opposed this plan created by the Radical Republicans.

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Congressional Reconstruction Plan

Multiple Choice

Required that 10% of a Southern state's population swear an oath to the U.S. before that state could be re-admitted to the Union.

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Congressional Reconstruction Plan

Multiple Choice

Before allowing them to set up a new state government, Lincoln required ten percent of southern voters in each state to

• enlist in the military.

• apply for a federal pardon.

• sell their land to the Union.

• take a loyalty oath to the Union.

Multiple Choice

What did the Freedmen's Bureau do?

• organize loyalty oaths by African American and white citizens in the South

• provide assistance to African American and white refugees in the South

• redistribute southern plantation lands to freedmen and poor whites

• register formerly enslaved people to vote

Multiple Choice

What's the best title for this list? 

• Black Codes
• Reconstruction Laws & Policies
• Civil War Codes
• Jim Crow Laws

Multiple Choice

Who was more interested in preserving the Union than punishing the South?

• Frederick Douglass

• Susan B. Anthony

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

Multiple Choice

In which plan, rejected by Lincoln, did a majority of the southern states' white adult males have to pledge loyalty to the Union?

• Wade-Davis Bill
• 10% plan
• Civil Rights Act
• Freedmen's Bureau

Multiple Choice

Who led the Radical Republicans?

• Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson

• Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant

• Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner

• Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

Multiple Choice

Carpetbaggers were...

• Newly freed slaves

• Southern Republicans

• Confederate Soldiers

• Northerners who took advantage of southern economic hardships 

Multiple Choice

Which action opposed the civil rights advances that the Reconstruction amendments had promised?

• The temperance movement.

• The passage of Jim Crow laws.

• The passage of antitrust legislation.

• The conservation movement.

Multiple Choice

Which amendment gave all male citizens the right to vote?

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

• 3rd amendment

Multiple Choice

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

• 3rd amendment

Multiple Choice

Which amendment granted citizenship to freed men?

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

• 3rd amendment

Multiple Choice

Why are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments considered the Reconstruction amendments?

• They were created to correct the injustices created by slavery

• They were created to continue a legal version of slavery in the South

• They were created to limit economic and political opportunities

• They attempted to solve the problems created by Reconstruction

Multiple Choice

How did the Freedmen's Bureau help African-Americans after the Civil War?

• The helped women register to vote

• The proposed the sharecropping and debt peonage system

• Taught freed slaves industrial skills

• Focused on campaigning for African American men

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT a goal of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• to settle labor disputes and give legal advice to former slaves

• to provide food and medical care to those in need in the South

• to establish schools to educate former slaves and help them find work

• to protest against the treatment of African Americans in Southern states

Multiple Choice

What was the main purpose of the Black Codes?

• To limit the rights of Black citizens

• To integrate public schools

• To promote racial equality

• To encourage Black citizens to vote

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of literacy tests?

• To promote reading among citizens

• To improve education

• To disenfranchise Black voters

• To ensure fair voting practices

Multiple Choice

What was an important effect of the sharecropping system and debt peonage?

• Freedmen achieved social and political equality in the South.

• Freedmen played an important role in the local and state government.

• Freedmen often remained in a state of economic dependence on their former masters.

• Freedmen achieved economic independence from their former masters.

Multiple Choice

After the Civil War, what system gave some African Americans independence, but still kept them in debt?

• sharecropping

• the Freedman's Bureau

• price incentives

• Jim Crow laws

Multiple Choice

Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.

• Integration
• Conflagration
• Confederation
• Segregation

Multiple Select

How did southerners prevent African-Americans from voting during the Jim Crow South? Check off the two ways.

• literacy tests

• poll taxes

• closing polling stations

• passing city ordinances that said only whites could vote

Multiple Choice

A white terrorist group that that threatened those Southern blacks who attempted to assert their full political and social rights. This frightened many into submission.

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• The KKK

• Black Codes

Multiple Choice

What was the outcome of Plessy v. Ferguson?

• Segregation was declared unconstitutional

• Separate but equal facilities were deemed constitutional

• Voting rights were expanded for Black citizens

• The Civil Rights Act was passed

Multiple Choice

Jim Crow Laws went directly against two Constitutional Amendments. Which two?

• 13th and 15th

• 13th and 14th

• 14th and 15th

• 15th and 16th

Multiple Choice

Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls.

• Literacy Tests

• Voting tests

• Government Tests

• Poll tests

Poll

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