U.S. History Module 1 EXAM Reconstruction

Which event led directly to the secession of Southern states?

• a U.S. Army attack on Fort Sumter

• an effort by Republicans to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act

• the election of Abraham Lincoln as president

What describes a step that each former Confederate state had to take to gain readmission to the Union?

• ratify the Thirteenth Amendment

• disband its militia until a new state legislature was elected

• elect a certain percentage of African Americans to Congress

Which issue was central to the conflict between the North and the South during the decades leading up to the Civil War?

• territorial expansion

• political party divisions

• states' rights

Which action increased the tensions between the North and the South that led to the Civil War?

• the impeachment of President Johnson

• the Dred Scott decision

• the election of Ulysses S. Grant

Which statement best explains why the issue of slavery contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War?

• The economies of the Confederate states relied on slave labor.

• The federal government refused to take action to suppress slave uprisings in the South.

• Fugitive slaves from the South were creating social tensions in the North.

Which statement best explains how the Kansas-Nebraska Act contributed to the tensions between the North and the South that led to the Civil War?

• The act prevented Southern slave owners from taking their slaves into federal territories without risking the loss of those slaves.

• The act led to violent conflicts between settlers in the Great Plains over the issue of expanding slavery to new territories.

• The act gave abolitionist leaders enough seats in Congress to outlaw slavery throughout the United States.

Which of these people or groups pushed hardest for strong protections for emancipated slaves' civil rights?

• the Freedmen's Bureau

• Radical Republicans in Congress

• the Freedmen's Bureau

Which action by President Andrew Johnson had the greatest impact on Reconstruction?

• his veto of the Reconstruction Acts

• his campaign for Democrats during the elections of 1866

• his grant of amnesty to former Confederate soldiers

Which group was founded to prevent African Americans from exercising their civil rights?

• the Ku Klux Klan

• the Populist Party

• the Radical Republicans

Which of these people or groups wanted to impose the most forgiving conditions on the defeated Confederate states?

• Union Army generals

• President Andrew Johnson

• Republican Congressional leaders