Civil War Pre-Assessment

What was the central issue regarding states' rights that helped spark the Civil War in America?

• Seceding states believed the federal government should not intervene in state's decisions. 
• Seceding states believed that only state governments could handle the issue of individual rights.
• Seceding states believed the U.S. Constitution prevented states from establishing local taxation. 
• Seceding states believed the federal government was not permitted to raise tariffs.

Northerners wanted to abolish slavery and Southerners wanted to keep slavery.  These two divided sections of the US selfishly focused on their own needs.  This is called....

• sectionalism
• nationalism
• patriotism
• sectarianism

What does Juneteenth commemorate?

• The end of slavery in Texas
• The beginning of summer in Texas
• The beginning of Reconstruction in Texas
• The end of the Civil War in Texas

This was an executive order issued on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control (that is, within the Confederacy)

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Conscription Act

• Anaconda Plan

• Gettysburg Address

Which of the following contributed to the Union victory during the Civil War?

• The North had more rivers.

• New Yorkers were known to be exceptionally tough

• The North had more oil and gas.

• The North was more industrialized than the South

After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to?

• punish plantation owners for the use of slavery.

• support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South.

• promote the activities of the Freedmen’s Bureau.

• limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment.

The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to?

• establish legal requirements for the education of former slaves.
• mandate fair labor contracts between African American workers and plantation owners.
• abolish the institution of slavery.
• protect the voting rights of African American men.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by?

• providing them with voting rights.

• guaranteeing their freedom of speech.

• providing them with access to the court system.

• guaranteeing their permanent freedom from slavery.

Which of the following best completes the list above?

• Established schools.

• Certified applications for political office.

• Granted small-business loans.

• Provided funds for farming supplies.

What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

• Agricultural workers organized labor unions.
• Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt.
• Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses.
• Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves.