Civil War and Reconstruction Quiz

What is sectionalism?

• Loyalty to one’s own section/region

• National interests should always be placed ahead of local/regional concerns

• Westward expansion

What did the 14th amendment guarantee for both free blacks and formerly enslaved people?

• Citizenship - full protection of civil rights

• Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

• Due Process of law

• All of the above

Who was Dred Scott?

• A former slave who sued for his freedom and was declared a non-citizen/property

• Free man from the North who was sold into slavery

• Publisher of the newspaper The Liberator

• Senator from South Carolina

Which reconstruction plan denied white Southerners the ability to obtain political positions?

• Lincoln’s 10% Plan

• Radical Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction

What was the significance of Dred Scott v. Sanford?

• Missouri Compromise declared unconstitutional

• Abolished slavery in the United States

• Forced to move West to Indian territory

• Court ruled that a state could not tax a national bank

All of the following were an impact of the Compromise of 1850 except-

• The slave trade was abolished in Washington D.C.

• California was admitted to the Union as a free state.

• Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slaveholding state.

• The fugitive slave law was established.

Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?

• Richmond, Virginia

• New Orleans, Louisiana

• Del Valle, Texas

• Appomattox Court House, Virginia

What did the 15th amendment guarantee?

• Freedom for all

• Citizenship for Native Americans

• Suffrage for African American men

How did white southerners prevent freedmen from exercising their 15th amendment rights? (choose two)

• Literacy Tests

• Poll Taxes

• Sharecropping

• Tenant Farming

According to the following quote, what do pro slavery Southerners say is needed for the emancipation of slaves?

Article VII.   --Slavery.   

Section 2.   The Legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or without paying the owners previous to their emancipation a full equivalent in money for the slaves so emancipated.   

--Lecompton Constitution,  1857