Civil War and Reconstruction

Issues that divided the United States in the 1850's were ____.

• War with Mexico
• Industrial Revolution
• Slavery and States' Rights
• Railroads and Ships

What act started the Civil War?

• Union (U.S.) soldiers would not allow Confederate troops to seize Ft. Sumpter, South Carolina.
• U.S. troops fired upon the Texas and Virginia militias at Bull Run, Virginia.
• Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis had a fist fight on a street in Washington, D.C.
• Because several tribes of Indians attacked Richmond, Virginia.

Why did the Union think the Civil War would not last very long?

• The Union had more soldiers.
• The Union had more firearms.
• The Union had more money.
• All of these answers are correct.

When the Civil War ended, who was the main General of Confederate Forces?

• Ulysses S. Grant
• Robert E. Lee
• William T. Sherman
• Thomas "Stone Wall" Jackson

Who assisted freed slaves with education, jobs and housing?

• Southern Coalition
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Hopes Closet
• Sister Mary's Mission

Which of the following is an effect of the Civil War?

• the Missouri Compromise
• Bleeding Kansas
• the Gettysburg Address
• Reconstruction

 Black Codes were established in the South immediately after the Civil War in an effort to

• integrate freedmen into American society
• enforce the Emancipation Proclamation
• expand educational opportunities
•  limit the rights of newly freed African Americans

After the Civil War, which development limited economic opportunities for African Americans in the South?

• creation of military districts
• establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau
• use of the sharecropping system
• ratification of the 14th amendment

Literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes were enacted by Southern States to

•  limit the movement of African Americans
•  restrict the voting rights of African Americans
•  improve the social status of African Americans
• expand educational opportunities for African Americans

After the Civil War, the purpose of adding the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution was to

• grant civil and political rights to Native American Indians
• allow women to become full citizens
• guarantee African Americans equal treatment under the law
• extend constitutional rights to new territories