US History - Civil War and Reconstruction

Which Amendment, starting in 1865, abolished slavery?

What was the Northern Civil War Strategy to starve the South using a naval blockade, capturing Richmond VA, and controlling the Mississippi?

• Secessionist Plan

• Penninsula Plan

• Anaconda Plan

• 10% Plan

Term used to describe the 1854-1856 Violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters in Kansas:

• Bleeding Kansas

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Battle of Vicksburg

What did the U.S. Supreme Court rule in the case of Dred Scott Vs. Sandford from 1857?

• The court ruled that a person could take their property to the North

• The court ruled that slavery should end immediately

• The court ruled that slaves were not considered property

• The court ruled that slaves were citizens and could sue in court for their freedom

The Missouri Compromise established the 36' 30' North latitude line as what?

• a dividing line that banned slavery in northern territories while allowing it in southern territories

• a dividing line that allowed the U.S. Army to remove Native Americans to western reservations

• a dividing line that was used to sell federal land to pioneers for farming and ranching

• a dividing line that set up the U.S. national park system

What amendment to the U.S. Constitution made former slaves citizens of the U.S. and gave them equal protection under the law?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 19th

Define the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854:

• It called for Kansas and Nebraska to enter the Union as one large state in 1854

• It automatically allowed Nebraska to enter the Union as a free state and Kansas as a slave state

• The creation of the two new territories would allow the U.S. Army to remove Native Americans from their native hunting grounds

• It divided Kansas and Nebraska into two separate territories and gave each territory the right to vote on the issue of allowing slavery

What did the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allow?

• Former slaves the right to own land in former Confederate States

• African American men the right to vote

• The establishment of free public schools for former American American slaves in the South

• Former African America slaves the right to apply for a marriage licenses

After the Civil War ended, this federal government agency offered aide to former slaves and poor white famers in the form of health care, marriage licenses, and free public schools.

• Settlement Houses

• the Freedman's Bureau

• Lincoln's 10% Plan

• New Deal

What was the main cause of the Abolitionist Movement?

• Overseeing total enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act

• the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• the expansion of slavery into western U.S. territories

• end slavery