Civil War and Reconstruction

Which battle gave Lincoln the victory he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

• Gettysburg
• Antietam
• Appomattox Court House
• Vicksburg

Who was the Union general in the West that gained the only victories for the Union?

• Robert E. Lee
• William Tecumseh Sherman
• Stonewall Jackson
• Ulysses S. Grant

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared that

• slaves in U.S. territories were free.
• slaves throughout the world were free.
• slaves in Confederate states were free.
• slaves in Union slave states were free.

What laws were created after the 13th Amendment to restrict African Americans in the South?

• black codes
• Jim Crow laws
• segregation bill

What required a fee to vote?

• poll tax
• 15th Amendment
• literacy test

Which Supreme Court case set the standard of "separate but equal"?

• Plessy vs. Ferguson
• Dred Scott vs. Sanford
• Baker vs. Carr

What was the effect of the Amnesty Act of 1872?

• Democrats regained control of Southern governments
• Slavery was returned to the South.
• All Confederate government officeholders were sentenced to death.

Literacy Tests, Grandfather Clauses, and Poll Taxes were all methods used in the South after the Civil War to prevent African Americans from

• Attending College
• Owning Property
• Running for Political Office
• Voting

What was a major result of the Missouri Compromise?

• It increased the number of immigrants settling in northern states
• It provided financing for canal construction
• It rapidly expanded railroad construction in southern states
• It temporarily relieved sectional tensions

"I was the conductor of the Underground railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors cant say - I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."  1904
Who made this statement?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Harriet Tubman
• Phillis Wheatley