The Civil War and Reconstruction

The only battle fought in the Northern States was the Battle of _________.

• Shiloh

• Fort Henry

• Gettysburg

• Fort Sumter

On ____________, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia.

• April 9, 1865

• June 9, 1863

• April 9, 1861

• May 9, 1862

The legal age to fight in battle was ______, but many younger boys were able to slip into an Army unit.

• 16

• 18

• 21

• 20

The Civil War went on for _____________.

• 6 years

• 2 years

• 8 years

• 4 years

The period of time following the Civil War was called ______________.

• Lincoln’s Plan

• Reconstruction

• A New Plan

• One Nation Again

On April 14, 1865, _____________ shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.

• Andrew Johnson

• Hiram Revels

• John Wilkes Booth

• Jourdan Anderson

The ______ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery forever in the United States.

• 2nd

• 5th

• 14th

• 13th

The 15th Amendment to the Constitution passed in 1870. It guaranteed all men the right to vote. Women did not get the right to vote until _________.

• 1920

• 1950

• 1880

• 1900

________________ rented land to grow crops and would give part of the crop to the landowner as payment for the land.

• plantations

• sharecroppers

• carpetbaggers

• scalawags

The ______________ provided newly emancipated people with assistance in finding food, shelter, education, and jobs.

• Sharecroppers

• Radical Republicans

• Confederates

• Freedmen’s Bureau