Civil War & Reconstruction

What did the Compromise of 1850 allow?

• It allowed for Kansas to become a slave state

• It allowed California to join the Union as a free state and the North agreed to the Fugitive Slave Law

• It allowed California to join the Southern States

• It allowed Kansas to agree to the Fugitive Slave Law if they joined the Union

What did the former Confederate States have to agree to before they were allowed back into the United States?

• Repeal the Black Codes

• Grant black women and men the right to vote

• Approve the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments

• Allow Freedmen to work as sharecroppers

Many Freedmen grew crops on white landowner's property. They had to pay the landowner rent for the land, seeds and tools by giving the landowner a share of their crops. This is known as?

• Land sharing

• Sharecropping

• Tariff

• Reconstruction

Many people did not agree with slavery and wanted it to end. These people were known as?

• Sons of Liberty

• Carpetbaggers

• Unionists

• Abolitionist

Who was the President of the Southern States when they seceded from the Union?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln?

• It freed all slaves

• It paid tribute to the soldiers killed in the Civil War

• It freed slaves in states that were at war with the Union

• It required slaves to be returned to their owners

A military strategy of the North during the Civil War was to use ships to surround the Southern port cities and take control of the Mississippi River while it attacked the South from both sides. The Union's plan became known as?

• The Anaconda Plan

• The Underground Railroad

• The Boston Tea Party

• Sons of Liberty

What is the significance of the Appomattox Courthouse?

• It was where the first shots were fired that began the Civil War

• It was the location Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address

• It was where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant

• It was a safe house for escaped slaves

After the Civil War, the South had to be rebuilt and new laws had to be passed to allow them to rejoin the Union. This time in history is known as?

• Secession

• The Missouri Compromise

• Reconstruction

• Liberty

Harriet Tubman was a freed slave who traveled to the Southern States to secretly help enslaved people escape to freedom in the North. This secret system was known as?

• The Underground Railroad

• The Pony Express

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• None of the above