Civil War/Reconstruction Review 2

Which of these was a task of the Freedman's Bureau

• It established schools for newly-freed slaves
• It set up "return to Africa" tips from former slaves
• It helped transition Native Americans to city and industrial life
• It created jobs for newly-arrived immigrants to the United States

The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson legalized

• discrimination of women in the workplace
• the segregation of people according to race
• preventing people from voting based on race
• housing discrimination against ethnic groups

The strife in "Bleeding Kansas" was associated with conflict between _____ and ____.

• slaves and masters
• immigrants and nativists
• Catholics and Protestants
• free-soilers and slavery opponents

The Confederate states' most important advantage entering the Civil War is generally considered to be that 

• their Navy was almost twice the size as that of the Union
• the Souh was much more industrial than the North and therefore produced more weapons
• their soldiers knew how to ride horses and use firearms better than any northerners did.
• they only had to fight a defensive war and outlast the Union's will to fight in order to win.

In February 1861 seven seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama to 

• discuss military strategy after the victory at First Bull Run
• decide how resources would be divided between the seven states of the Confederacy
• found the Confederate States of America
• try to get Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee to join the Confeerac

Which President oversaw the end of the Reconstruction Era?

• Andrew Johnson
• Abraham Lincoln
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Rutherford B. Hayes

California was initially admitted as a "free state", while 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

Which group was created in late 1865 to resist Reconstruction efforts in the South?

• the White Knights
• the Knights of Columbus
• the Ku Klux Klan
• the Scalawags

Early in his presidency, Abraham Lincoln declared that his primary goal as President was to

• preserve the Union
• encourage sectionalism
• enforce the Emancipation Proclamation
• end slaver throughout the entire country

Under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, a free white in the North could be sentenced to imprisonment and be forced to pay a fine for doing which of these?

• defending a fugitive slave in court
• advocating abolition
• helping a slave escape
• reporting a fugitive slave