The Civil War & Reconstruction - Ch. 13 Quiz

This is where the Civil War Ended

• Yorktown

• Richmond

• Appomattox Courthouse

This freed the slaves in Confederate states.

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Emancipation Proclamation

General Sherman marched across Georgia and South Carolina to...

• In search of runaway slaves

• to try to split up the Confederacy

• to gather supplies for the soldiers

General Sherman's path of destruction was known as...

• The March to the Sea

• The Path to Success

• The Traveling Soldiers

Who was the top general of the Confederate army?

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Lincoln

Who was the top general of the Union?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

Following the war, the plantation system collapsed due to________________________________.

• the passage of the Constitution Act

• the loss of slave labor

• the arrival of scalawags

• the establishment of a public education system

Reconstruction helped African Americans because______________________________________.

• their rights were protected

• they were able to vote

• they were able to be elected in the government

• All of the above

Following the end of Reconstruction, federal troops withdrew from the southern states. As a result,_________________________________________.

• a system of sharecropping was developed which used African American workers

• the 13th and 14th amendments were passed to protect African Americans

• white leaders passed laws to limit the rights of African Americans

What economic system replaces slavery during Reconstruction keeping African-Americans in poverty and debt?

• Sharecropping

• 40 Acres and a Mule

• Plantation Farming