Reconstruction

US President at beginning of the Civil War

• Andrew Johnson

• Jefferson Davis

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

Sectionalism between North and South was the result of the growth of what two types of differences?

• Political and Military

• Political and Economic

• Economic and Social

• Social and Political

What is the name of the argument that state power was greater than federal power?

• popular sovereignty

• sectionalism

• states' rights

• states' sovereignty

Included as part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act

• greatly reduced support for abolition

• encouraged people to assist runaway slaves

• allowed states to decide whether to be free or slave states

• made it a crime to assist runaway slaves

The Civil War began in April 1861 with the Confederate attack on

• Fort Sumter

• San Antonio

• Washington D.C.

• Richmond, Virginia

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

• abolished intolerance based on race

• abolished slavery

• granted voting rights to freedpeople

• granted civil rights to freedpeople

How did Congress respond to President Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

• it supported the veto

• it overrode the veto

• it took no action

• it called on the president to reconsider

Which of the following granted citizenship and equal rights to African Americans?

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Sixteenth Amendment

What was a sharecropper?

• a farmer who rented land in exchange for a portion of his crop

• a farmer who rented both land and supplies in exchange for a portion of his crop

• a landowner who rented out a portion of his land in exchange for crops

• a landowner who rented out a portion of his land and supplies in exchange for crops

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons it was hard to break the cycle of tenant farming and sharecropping?

• Low crop prices could mean that tenant farmers/sharecroppers with good harvests would still owe money to the landowner

• Bad weather or crop disease could mean a poor harvest

• If a farmer had a poor harvest he had to take out more loans

• Tenant farmers were required to grow cotton because it was the most valuable cash crop