Sectionalism - Civil War - Reconstruction

How did southern states respond to the

ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment?

• By creating a segregated public education system

• By shutting down all remaining offices of Freedmen’s Bureau

• By imposing requirements designed to deny African Americans the right to vote

• By forcing African Americans to work as tenant farmers and sharecroppers

Sectionalism, states’ rights, and slavery led to...

• American Revolution

• Popular Sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

• Civil War

All men are created equal, says the great Declaration and now a great act attests this verity. Today we make the Declaration a reality. . . . The Declaration was only half established by Independence. The greatest duty remained behind. In assuring the equal rights of all we complete the work. —Senator Charles Sumner, 1870

What is the “great act” referred to by Senator Sumner in this excerpt?

• The Senate’s readmission of the last Confederate state

• The addition of Hiram Rhodes Revels to the U.S. Senate

• The Senate’s acquittal of President Andrew Johnson

• The election of the first woman to the U.S. Senate

What was one effect of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• The Republican Party lost influence in the federal legislature.

• The Missouri Compromise was deemed unconstitutional by federal courts

• Tensions among the populations of northern and southern states increased.

• Immigrants were forced to relocate from eastern cities to western territories.

How were former Confederate leaders treated under the

Radical Reconstruction plan?

• They were denied citizenship because it was believed they had started the war.

• They were required to enlist in the U.S. Army for two years.

• They were denied the ability to obtain political positions.

• They were allowed to obtain federal loans to help restore the cotton industry.

Where did General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant,

which ended the Civil War?

• A private home in Appomattox County, Virginia

• The U.S. Capitol building

• A public church near Ford’s Theatre

• The Governor’s mansion in Richmond, Virginia

How did the Freedmen’s Bureau most assist in the reconstruction of the South?

• F By dividing large plantations and redistributing the property to former slaves

• By creating a militia to help enforce the voting rights of former slaves

• By offering legal assistance and public schooling to former slaves

• By petitioning the government to offer money to former slaves

Carpetbaggers headed to the south during which Era?

• Reconstruction

• Jackson

• Reform

• Early Republic

Which of the following had the greatest impact on the outcome of the Civil War?

• Economic differences between the Union and the Confederacy

• The amount of military training given to Union forces and Confederacy forces

• Religious differences between the Union and the Confederacy

• The alignment of foreign allies with the Union or with the Confederacy

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

What was the fundamental question addressed in each

of these congressional acts?

• Should the U.S. expand westward?

• Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?

• Should slave labor be allowed in new states?

• Should states be able to secede from the Union?