The Civil War & Reconstruction Test

What was the major type of labor used on Georgia’s plantations before the Civil War?

• Indentured servitude

• Hourly wage labor

• Sharecropping

• Slavery

The purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to

• Return slaves captured in free states to slave states

• Allow slavery in Maine, but not Missouri

• Maintain a balance of free states and slave states

• Let Missouri have slavery until 1850

The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act was to:

• Require slaves to have citizenship papers in order to have jobs

• Prevent slaves from testifying against whites in court trials

• Require slaves that had run away to go back to their owners

• Prevent slaves from having group gatherings or meetings

Why did the US Supreme Court rule against Dred Scott?

• Because he was the property of his owner and could be taken anywhere

• Because he did not live long enough in a free territory to be free

• Because Scott was a slave and he was not eligible to sue in court

• Because he was returned to a slave state and could not be freed

Which of the following ended slavery in the United States?

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• Radical Reconstruction

• The Thirteenth Amendment

• The Fourteenth Amendment

Shortly after Lincoln’s election, Georgia:

• Remained loyal to the Union

• Seceded from the Union

• Abolished slavery to avoid war

• Seceded from the Confederacy

The main purpose of General Sherman's "March to the Sea" in 1864 was to

• Convince France and Britain to get out of the war.

• Capture the important railroad depot at Charleston.

• Permanently destroy Georgia's ability to produce cotton.

• Delete the South's strategic and economic capacity to fight.

Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" dealt with

• His idea for instituting an income tax.

• How to draft more men into the Union Army.

• Re-admitting Southern states into the Union.

• His quest to reconquer only 10% of the South.

General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea" was important to the Union war effort because

• It placed the Mississippi River under Union control.

• It convinced Great Britain to stop supporting the Confederacy.

• Important railroad tracks were destroyed, severing supply lines for Confederate forces.

• Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender his forces as a direct result of Sherman's victory.

During Reconstruction, the Black Codes

• Protected the Constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves.

• Forced Congress to do the bidding of former Confederate politicians.

• Were enacted by the Radical Republicans to prevent racial discrimination in the South.

• Were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans in a system of virtual slavery.