Civil War & Reconstruction (Matolak/Llanes/Taylor)

1. What was the main purpose of "Reconstruction"?

• to force the southern states to secede from the Union

• to reunite the southern states to the north

• to rebuild the transcontinental railroad

• to rebuild northern cities that were destroyed by the civil war

2. What was the overall purpose of black codes passed by the new Southern legislatures?

• to ensure African Americans had independent new lives in Southern society

• to limit the rights of African Americans to a state similar to slavery

• to provide educational opportunities and apprenticeships for African Am

• to create regulations concerning work hours, pay, & employment conditions

3. After the Civil War, freedmen in the South had difficulty improving their economic condition because

• literacy for formerly enslaved persons was prohibited

• migration of factory workers from Northern cities had created competition

• the federal government confiscated their 40- acre grants

• the system of sharecropping kept them in a cycle of poverty

4. What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution?

• punishing the South for seceding from the Union

• granting basic rights to formerly enslaved persons

• allowing the states to veto federal laws

• creating a “separate but equal” society

5. After the Civil War, which allowed African-Americans to vote?

• Grandfather clauses

• The Poll Tax

• The Gettysburg Address

• The 15th Amendment

6. A primary reason for the passage of the 14th amendment in 1868 was to

• prohibit the secession of states

• uphold the legality of the Black Codes

• continue the presidential plan for Reconstruction

• guarantee citizenship rights to the newly freed slaves

7. The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 provided for

• temporary Union military supervision of the ex-Confederacy states

• federal monetary support of the resettlement of American Blacks to Africa

• denial of Black property-holding and voting rights

• lenient re-admission of the ex-Confederate states to the Union

8. What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South after the war

• to provide food, housing and medical aid

• establish schools, offer legal assist & attempt to settle former slaves

• all of the answers are correct

9. What effect did Uncle Tom’s Cabin have on public opinion?

• Northerners became more sympathetic toward slave owners

• Northerners became more opposed to slavery

• Southerners began to see slavery as a moral evil

• Americans lost interest in the slavery issue

10. What led to growing sectionalism in the United States?  

• The struggle over states rights’

• Differences in the economies of the North and South

• Issues over slavery

• All the answers are correct