American Civil War and Reconstruction Era Quiz

Which act prohibited state banks from issuing their own notes and forced them to apply for federal charter?

• Homestead Act

• Legal Tender Act

• National Bank Act

• Morrill Tariff Act

What was the name given to the anti-immigrant party formed from the wreckage of the Whig Party and some disaffected Northern democrats in 1854?

• Copperheads

• Radical Republicans

• Ku Klux Klan

• Know-Nothings

Which law admitted California as a free state, allowed the residents of the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide the slavery issue for themselves, ended the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and passed a new fugitive slave law to enforce the constitutional provision?

• Compromise of 1850

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

What was the order by General William T. Sherman in January 1865 to set aside abandoned land along the southern Atlantic coast for forty-acre grants to freedmen called?

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Black Codes

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Field Order 15

Which Supreme Court ruling stated that slaves could not be U.S. citizens and that Congress had no jurisdiction over slavery in the territories?

• Compromise of 1877

• Dred Scott Decision

• John Brown's Raid

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

What was the agency established by Congress in March 1865 to provide social, educational, and economic services, advice, and protection to former slaves and destitute whites called?

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Black Codes

• Freedmen's Bureau

What was the law passed in 1854 creating the Kansas and Nebraska Territories but leaving the question of slavery open to residents, thereby repealing the Missouri Compromise?

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

What was the law passed by Congress in May 1862 providing homesteads with 160 acres of free land in exchange for improving the land within five years of the grant called?

• Homestead Act

• Legal Tender Act

• Morrill Land Grant Act

• National Bank Act

What was the name given to the period 1867-1870 when the Republican-dominated Congress controlled Reconstruction era policy?

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Dred Scott Decision

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Congressional Reconstruction

What was the law that raised tariffs to more than double their prewar rate called?

• National Bank Act

• Legal Tender Act

• Homestead Act

• Morrill Tariff Act