Civil War & Reconstruction Benchmark Review

What system of agriculture replaced slave plantations after the Civil War?

• sharecropping

• communes

• government farming

• cotton production ceased

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin helped to popularize which reform movement?

• abolition

• temperance

• women's rights

• prison reform

Abraham Lincoln's main priority upon being elected president was to

• preserve the union

• end slavery

• destroy the South

• invade Canada

Which amendment is not known as "Civil Rights" amendment?

• 13th

• 12th

• 14th

• 15th

Presidents Lincoln and Johnson wanted to punish the South for secession, and were determined to make it very difficult for them to rejoin the Union

• True

• False

"No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges....of citizens...nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..." is a quotation from which amendment?

• 12

• 13

• 14

• 15

The Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free any slaves, as it only ended slavery in areas controlled by the Confederacy

• True

• False

The election of Abraham Lincoln was the direct cause of which event?

• Compromise of 1850

• Treaty of Versailles

• secession of the Southern states

• Emancipation Proclamation

Laws enacted in Southern states which required racial segregation are known as

• Jim Crow Laws

• Blue Laws

• Abolition Laws

• Prohibition Laws

Why did North Carolina's antebellum economy struggle in comparison to other Southern states?

• Lack of investment in infrastructure, such as railroads and and canals

• Poor soil in comparison to neighboring states

• An uneducated population

• Too much tar