Civil war

Who was the President during the Civil War?

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• John F. Kennedy

• Andrew Johnson

The main cause of the Civil War was

• the North did not want to be associated with poor southern states

• Lincoln's assassination by a Southerner

• taxation without representation

• the disagreement over slavery

"650,000 American lives were lost during the Civil War." This statement best describes the Civil War as

• the most deadly war on American soil

• a war in which soldiers didn't know what to do

• a time when our population was much larger

• the shortest, safest war in our history

Who won the Civil War?

• The North -- Union

• The South -- Confederacy

In 1865 Southern

• whites quickly admitted they had been wrong in trying to secede and win southern independence

• whites rapidly emancipated their slaves and respected their status as free citizens

• blacks uniformly turned in anger and revenge against their former masters and began attacking and killing them

• blacks often began traveling to test their freedom, search for family members, and seek economic opportunity

In his 10% Plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln

• promised rapid readmission of southern states into the Union

• allowed the rich, white planter class of the Confederacy return to political power

• gave severe punishment of southern political and military leaders

• made the southern states pay 10% of their wealth to the northern states for war debt

The 14th Amendment guaranteed

• land to former slaves

• freedom to slaves

• freed slaves the right to vote

• citizenship to freed slaves

The original purpose of the Freedman’s Bureau was

• to see that former slaves were given the right to vote

• to assist Blacks in their transition from slavery to freedom

• to fight back against the KKK

• to see that the 13th Amendment was enforced

The Black Codes were

• religious rules under which freed slaves chose to live

• laws applied only to blacks to keep them as second-class citizens

• created and supported by the citizens and governments of Northern states

• considered a progressive step to help the freedmen in the south

During Reconstruction, southern Blacks typically did which of the following?

• worked on farms as tenant farmers and sharecroppers

• migrated northward to Canada to escape racism

• owned and worked small farms

• worked as skilled day laborers in towns and cities