Civil War & Reconstruction

Who was the leader of the Confederacy troops?

• General Sam Houston

• General Robert E. Lee

• General William B. Travis

• General Ulysses S. Grant

The Civil War was mostly about ___.

• slavery

• sharecropping

• reconstruction

• tariffs

The North wanted tariffs because ___.

• they wanted to upset the South.

• they hoped all Americans would buy American-made goods.

• they were at war with Europe.

• they needed the money to run their factories.

President Abraham Lincoln gave the ____ speech on the field in which the Battle of Gettysburg was fought.

• Treaties of Medicine Lodge Creek

• 13th Amendment

• I Have a Dream

• Emancipation Proclamation

What was the Freedman's Bureau?

• helped former slaves find family members; gain an education; afford food, shelter, and clothing

• punished slaves for escaping their owner's plantation

• a small battle between the Union and Confederacy

• a speech given by President Abraham Lincoln on the Gettysburg fields

What was the number one challenge of sharecropping?

• mean plantation owners

• bad season of crops

• way too much rain

• no education

Who was the leader of the Yanks (Union) troops?

• General Ulysses S. Grant

• General Robert E. Lee

• General William B. Travis

• General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Where did most American Indians go once they left Texas?

• Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah

• Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida

• Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico

• Mexico, New Mexico, Colorado

The Union set up ____ along the Southern coast to keep the Southerner's from trading goods.

• blockades

• sharecropping

• tariffs

• Freedman's Bureaus

____ was the first African American to play Major League Baseball.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Jackie Robinson

• Langston Hughes

• Martin Luther King, Jr.