The Civil War

1. The Freedmen's Bureau was established in order

to...

• A. Provide women with job opportunities.

• B. Provide freed slaves with food, water, shelter, and medicine.

• C. Help the southern states recover from the Civil War.

• D. Help freed slaves with their sharecropping.

Answer explanation

C. Provide freed slaves with food, water, shelter, and medicine.

___________ refers to the period of time after the Civil War when the Southern States were brought back into the Union?

• A. American Revolution

• B. Freedmen's Bureau

• C. Westward Expansion

• D. Reconstruction

Which of the following is true about the South after the Civil War?

• A. African Americans could easily run for political office.

• B. Southerners rejected slavery

• C. Farms, businesses, and homes were in ruins.

• D. Industry moved in and everyone was happy.

John Brown led a raid on the United States Armory (Arsenal) at ____, West Virginia in 1859.

• A. Howardsville

• B. Harpers Ferry

• C. Hop a Ferry

• D. Cold Harbor

The south seceded from the north (the Union) What does secede mean?

• to succeed

• to join

• to become unassociated

After _____ became president of the United States in 1860, seven southern states seceded from the Union.

• A. John F. Kennedy

• B. Abraham Lincoln

• C. James Monroe

• D. John Adams

An order by President Lincoln that freed slaves in states that were fighting against the union.

• A. Emancipation Proclamation

• B. Jim Crow Laws

• C. Slave Code

• D. Reconstruction

The majority of the battles of the Civil War were fought where?

• A. North

• B. South

• C. West

• D. Union

The Civil War is a war between...

• A. People of the same country

• B. People of the same race

• C. People of the same religion

• D. People from two different countries

________ is an arrangement in which a person grows crops on someone else's land

• A. Emancipation

• B. Sharecropping

• C. Slavery

• D. 13th Amendment