United States History Quiz

What invention by Ely Whitney increased the southern cotton production and the demand for slave labor?

• Steam Engine

• Power Loom

• Cotton Gin

• Spinning Jenny

Which act left the issue of slavery up to Popular Sovereignty and led to violence in United States Territories?

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Who brought machinery blueprints from Britain that led to the Northern Industrial Revolution?

• Samuel Slater

• John Deere

• Robert Fulton

• Ely Whitney

What was the Union's plan for defeating the Confederacy called?

• Anaconda Plan

• Overland Campaign

• Sherman's March

• Gettysburg Plan

Which battle was a decisive victory for the Sioux and Cheyenne against the United States army?

• Battle of Fort Sumter

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Battle of Shiloh

What did the Emancipation Proclamation intend to do?

• Establish the Freedman's Bureau

• Free all slaves in states rebelling against the Union

• Grant women the right to vote

• End the Civil War

Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

• 16th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

Who was the first black Senator elected during Reconstruction?

• Hiram Revels

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Booker T. Washington

• Frederick Douglass

What was the main purpose of the Freedman's Bureau?

• To draft soldiers for the Union army

• To help newly freed slaves and poor whites

• To promote segregation

• To enforce the Fugitive Slave Act

Which event marked the end of Reconstruction?

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Compromise of 1877

• The Emancipation Proclamation