Civil War/Reconstruction Review 1

Which of these was a characteristic of the South that contributed to the military strength in the early part of the Civil War?

• capable military leadership
• superior industrial capability
• vast food production capability
• an extensive transportation network

This law allowed territories to decide the fate of slavery based on popular sovereignty, unintentionally had the effect of increasing tensions between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces as they rushed west and had violent clashes over control of territory.  It was the 

• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Northwest Ordinance

The majority of Civil War deaths came as a result of 

• disease and infection
• fighting on the battlefield
• starvation and malnutrition
• an outbreak of Spanish Influenza

Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" dealt with 

• his idea for institution an income tax
• how to draft more men into the Union Army
• re-admitting Southern states into the Union
• his quest to reconquer only 10% of the South

The main purpose of "Jim Crow" laws in the south was to 

• segregate blacks and whites
• provide unemployment assistance
• restore Republican control of local governments
• help the economy of the South after Reconstruction

The amendment which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude was the 

• 11th Amendment
• 12th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment

What was the effect of the use of literacy tests throughout the South after the U.S. Civil War?

• women were denied the right to vote
• an increase in voter turnout by African Americans
• the poor and African Americans not being allowed to vote
• an increase in the power of the Republican Party in the South

California was initially admitted as a "free State", which citizens of Utah and New Mexico territories were left to decide the issue for themselves.  Which of these set this up?

• Wilmot Proviso 
• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea" was important to the Union war effort because

• it placed the Mississippi River under Union control
• it convinced Great Britain to stop supporting the Confederacy
• important railroad tracks were destroyed, severing supply lines for Confederate forces
• Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender his forces as a direct result of Sherman's victory

During Reconstruction, the Black Codes

• protected the Constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves
• forced Congress to do the bidding of former Confederate politicians
• were enacted by the Radical Republicans to prevent racial discrimination in the South
• were laws passed by mainly Souther states to keep African Americans in a system of virtual slavery