Civil War & Reconstruction Unit Test Review

Which of the following WAS NOT an advantage of the North in the Civil War?

• Well Trained Army

• Railroads

• Industrialization

• Population

Which of the following WAS NOT an advantage of the south:

• Commitment to the Cause

• Defensive War

• Population

• Better Trained Army

What were the major causes of the Civil War? (Select all that apply)

• Expanded Fugitive Slave Laws

• Westward Expansion

• Slavery

• Lincoln winning the election of 1860

• All of the above

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation actually freed?

• Only slaves in the border states

• Only slaves in Western Territories

• All of the slaves in the North and South

• Only the slaves in the Confederacy, so none of them

What Amendment grants citizenship to all person born on American soil except for Native Americans.

• The 16th Amendment

• The 13th Amendment

• The 14th Amendment

• The 15th Amendment

What practice was established in America by the landmark Supreme Court Case Plessy Versus Ferguson?

• Slaves were property and not citizens

• Separate but equal is equality

• Voting rights for Freedpeople

• Literacy tests and poll taxes were legal

Sharecropping and Tenant Farming is

• A policy that gave Freed Slaves who helped the North during the war 40 acres and a mule

• Allowing Freed Slaves the ability to work land without having to buy it or pay for their supplies to help them get ahead after Slavery ended

• A system of farming that left freed slaves and poor whites in debt to wealthy landowners and tied to the land

• A system from the Freedmen's Bureau to allow economically disadvantaged people in the south the opportunity to own land

What laws sought to restrict the freedoms of African Americans after slavery ended and they become the basis of Jim Crow Laws?

• Separate but Equal Doctrine

• Black Codes

• Sharecropping

• The Grandfather laws

Slavery is outlawed in the US by this amendment

• The 13th Amendment

• The 14th Amendment

• The 15th Amendment

• The 16th Amendment

Who were the Redeemers?

• Radical Republicans who wanted to reunite the Union after the Civil War.

• Southern Democrats who used coupons.

• Southern Democrats who wanted to bring the progress of Reconstruction to an end.

• Radical Republicans who wanted to profit off the South's loss in the Civil War and punish the former members of the Confederacy.