Civil War and Reconstruction Retake Quiz

What was a major cause of the Civil War?

• The invention of the cotton gin

• Disagreements over states' rights and slavery

• The assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• The election of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Which battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Fort Sumter

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Bull Run

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• Freed all slaves in the Confederate states

• Ended the Civil War

• Granted citizenship to former slaves

• Allowed slaves to vote

Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

What was one effect of Reconstruction?

• The immediate end of racial discrimination

• The South's economy became stronger than the North's

• African Americans gained political power through the right to vote

• The establishment of a monarchy in the United States

What was the primary goal of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To segregate the South

• To assist former slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War

• To recruit soldiers for the Civil War

• To oversee the impeachment of the President

Who were the "carpetbaggers"?

• Southern Democrats who supported Reconstruction

• Former Confederate soldiers who moved to the North

• Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction

• African American soldiers in the Civil War

What does the term "scalawags" refer to?

• Northern soldiers who fought for the Confederacy

• Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party

• Freed slaves who became politicians

• British mercenaries who fought in the Civil War

Who was the President of the Confederate States during the Civil War?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Abraham Lincoln

Which amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment