CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION QUIZ

Passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, it set high penalties for anyone who aided escaped slaves and compelled all law enforcement officers to participate in retrieving runaways. Strengthened the antislavery cause in the North.

• The Compromise Law

• Fugitive Slave Law

• The Stamps Act

• The Scaping Slave Law

Supreme Court decision which stated slaves were property, and ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. This case was:

• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

• Dred Sandford v. Scott Sandford(1857)

• Sandford v Sandford (1857)

• Scott v Scott (1857)

Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation

• Secession

• Succession

• Extension

• Protection

Favoring interest of one section or region over the interest of the inter country is called:

• Sectionlism

• Protectionism

• Comunism

• Socialism

Uncle Tom's Cabin was a:

• A political analysis of the consequences of US Civil War

• A novel published by harriet beecher stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral

• A law enacted in 1852 to allow the afro-american people to form their own churches

• A law enacted in 1852 to allow the afro-american people to vote

This was a system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North

• Underground River

• Underground Roads

• Underground Railroad

• Subways

The Strategy for the Union army by General Winfield Scott which involved choking off the main resources of the Confederate army (strangling it like an anaconda) Had 3 main goals: gain control of the Mississippi River (this would cut the Confederacy into 2 parts), blockade the Southern ports, and to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. This was called:

• The Anaconda Plan

• The Snake Plan

• The Piton Plan

• The Mississippi plan

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?

• It allowed the organized annexation of new territory to the US

• It allowed the west US Expansion

• It divided the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into 2 territories: Kansas and Nebraska. The issue of slavery was to be decided by popular sovereignty.

• It divided the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into 2 territories: Kansas and Nebraska. The issue of slavery was to be decided by parliamentary sovereignty.

Which government agency was formed to help former slaves acquire land after the Civil War?

• the Freedmen's Bureau

• the Department of Agriculture

• the Resettlement Administration

• the Works Progress Administration

How did the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson affect both the North and the South?

• It supported the Reconstruction amendments.

• Segregation on public transportation was ended.

• The basis for separate but equal legislation was established.

• It dismantled Jim Crow laws.