Civil War and Reconstruction Era Quiz

What did the Civil War preserve and abolish?

• The Union and slavery

• The Confederacy and slavery

• The Union and the plantation system

• The Union and involuntary servitude

What does the term "Reconstruction Era" (1865-1877) refer to?

• The period before the Civil War

• The period during the Civil War

• The period after the Civil War, especially in the South

• The period of industrial revolution in the North

Who believed that to rebuild national unity, Southern states should be treated leniently before his death?

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

Andrew Johnson, who became President after Lincoln, was from which state?

• Virginia

• Tennessee

• Kentucky

• Mississippi

After the Civil War, many Southern states elected former leaders from which group for seats in the new Congress?

• Unionist

• Confederate

• Abolitionist

• Federalist

What was the term used to refer to the millions of freed slaves facing problems in the South?

• Citizens

• Freedmen

• Emancipated

• Refugees

What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau established by Congress?

• To segregate the freed slaves

• To help the freed slaves with education and voting rights

• To help the freed slaves with food, clothing, and medical care

• To return the freed slaves to their former owners

What was the aim of the "Black Codes"?

• To grant full citizenship to the freedmen

• To preserve traditional northern society

• To preserve traditional southern society despite the abolition of slavery

• To integrate freedmen into the industrial workforce

The 14th Amendment granted U.S. citizenship to all former ________.

• Immigrants

• Slaves

• Soldiers

• Children

The Fourteenth Amendment also stated that no one in the former ________ government could be a member of the federal government.

• Union

• Confederate

• Colonial

• Territorial