Civil War/Reconstruction quiz

____________ was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress?

• Thaddeus Stephens

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Jefferson Davis

• Wentworth Cheswell

Type of farming in which former slaves rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, leaving the newly freedmen working for very little?

• subsistence farming

• sharecropping

• reconstruction

This major battle of the Civil War was considered the turning point of the war which ended in a Union victory over General Lee's Army?

• Vicksburg

• Shiloh

• Gettysburg

• New Orleans

Radical Republicans believed…?

• That black codes need to be strictly enforced

• The south only needed 10% of the population to swear an oath of loyalty to the Union to rejoin

• That President Lincoln was too lenient on the south, felt the need to push for freemen's rights

Which of the following was the first major conflict of the Civil War that ended in a Confederate Victory and made a Confederate leader famous?

• Gettysburg

• Battle of Manassas

• 1st Battle of Bull Run

• 2nd Battle of Bull Run

This amendment outlines the rights of the states respectively, which was used to justify the right to own slaves in their respective state?

• Amendment 1

• Amendment 5

• Amendment 10

• Amendment 13

A naval blockade, use of the railroad system, and the complete control of the --------------- River after the Battle of Vicksburg helped ensure a Union victory?

• Rio Grande

• Atlantic

• Mississippi

• Missouri

Which of the following battles was one of the bloodiest single day loses in U.S. military history that ended in a draw?President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation 5 days after.

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Vicksburg

White southerners opposing the ______________ Amendment, came out with poll taxes and literacy tests in order to vote?

• 10th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson were leaders of...?

• The Union

• Ku Klux Klan

• The Confederacy