Civil War and Reconstruction

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

• Expanded Fugitive Slave Laws

• Slavery

• Westward Expansion

• Lincoln winning the election of 1860

• All of these

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

• Sharecropping

• The Grandfather laws

• Black Codes

Slavery is outlawed in the US by this amendment:

• The 13th Amendment

• The 14th Amendment

• The 15th Amendment

• The 16th Amendment

Sharecropping and Tenant Farming is:

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

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

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

What do you call a person who was opposed to slavery and worked toward ending it?

• Secessionist

• Lincolnist

• Abolitionist

• Whig

The US Supreme Court decided that this man was still just a slave, even though he had lived in a free territory, setting the stage for slavery to be legal everywhere

• Uncle Tom

• Tony Stark

• Dred Scott

• Brown v Board

Who was president of the Confederate States during the war?

• Jefferson Davis

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Alexander Hamilton

The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this fort on April 12, 1861

• Fort Benning

• Fort Sumter

• Fort Belvoire

• Fort Pierce

Slavery is outlawed in the US by this amendment:

• 13th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 12th Amendment

Who won the Civil War?

• Florida

• The Confederacy

• Mexico

• The Union