American History Quiz

He was skeptical of treaties with the United States, and led the Sioux tribe against General Custer’s army.

• Sitting Bull

• Ghost Dance

• Chief Wallawalla

• Crazy Horse

He was the first president to be impeached, after clashing with Congress over his leniency towards former Confederates and unwillingness to support programs to help former slaves.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S Grant

• George Washington

• Andrew Johnson

How did people react to John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of President Lincoln?

• Most Americans celebrated him as a hero for “killing the tyrant.”

• Americans in the North were horrified, but most Southerners called him a hero.

• Americans in the North called him a hero, but most Southerners were horrified.

• Most Americans were horrified.

Which statement best describes Abraham Lincoln’s plans for “reconstruction?”

• Let the rebels off easy by welcoming them back so long as they swore loyalty to the USA and abolished slavery.

• Act like nothing ever happened by going straight back to normal.

• Make the rebels suffer for all the death and destruction in the Civil War with steep reparations payments.

• Make the rebel states pay an extra tax for seceding to support government aid to former slaves.

What was the purpose of the “Freedmen’s Bureau?”

• Legalize slavery by establishing a cycle of debt for former slaves that they would be unable to work their way out of.

• Help former slaves “get on their feet” by providing financial aid, education, and skills training.

• Pass laws that would prevent southern blacks from voting.

• Help Confederate states rebuild after the destruction of the Civil War.

A system of loaning out farming equipment and land to former slaves and splitting the produce but designed to keep them in perpetual debt.

• sharecropping
• segregation

• indentured servitude

• white supremacy

For what purpose were white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan formed after the Civil War?

• To rally support among whites for Democratic political candidates.

• To make southern blacks believe in ghosts.

• To harass and kill southern blacks so that they would be too afraid to vote.

• To exterminate all blacks in the American South in a genocide.

How was segregation justified in the American South?

• It was separate, but allegedly “equal.”

• President Lincoln voiced support of it in his last will.

• It was legally recognised by states’ governments that blacks were biologically “inferior” to whites.

• It supposedly gave blacks access to a better education than poor whites.

What was the goal of the United States’s assimilation policies?

• To integrate former slaves into white society in the American South.

• To push American Indians into abandoning their tribal heritage and adopting American customs and ways of life.

• To make someone look like an ass.

• To push American Indian nations onto small reservations, often through violence.

Which amendment is this provision a part of: "Nobody who has broken their oath to uphold the Constitution and then violated it by rebelling against it, or helping rebels can hold political office?"