The Civil War & Reconstruction

How did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott decision

• Dred and Harriet Scott were freed.

• Enslaved persons were legal property, and no state could deprive citizens of their property without due process of law

• All African Americans were citizens

The Underground Railroad helped escaped slaves by

• Buying them train tickets to the North

• Building a series of tunnels that led out of the South

• Taking them to safe houses where they could hide on their way to free territories

The Missouri Compromise did all of the following except

• Make Maine a free state

• . Draw a line where slavery would exist only north of it

• Make Missouri a free state

Which of the following repealed the Missouri Compromise, and allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves if they were to be a free or slave state?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• California Nevada Act

• Compromise of 1850

What organization was created to help newly freed slaves after the Civil War ended?

• Savemen's Bureau

• Scalawags

• Freedmen's Bureau

Which of the following was not one of the Black Codes that were meant restrict the rights of freed slaves after the Civil War?

• Had to pay a poll tax in order to vote.

• Had to pass a literacy test in order to vote.

• Had to hold public office in order to vote.

What was the Compromise of 1877?

• an agreement that settled the 1876 presidential election and pulled military troops out of the South and essentially ending Reconstruction,

• an agreement that extended reconstruction in the south.

• an agreement between the North and the South that allowed slavery to continue to exist in some parts of the country.

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

• Maine

• South Carolina

• Florida

The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the United States.

• True

• False

The Fugitive Slave Law required that runaway slaves be returned to their owners.

• True

• False