Civil War Unit Flash Cards

True or false? Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877.

• True

• False

• It ended in 1865

• It ended in 1896

_____________ is extreme loyalty for a region in the nation instead of the whole nation.

• Nationalism

• Sectionalism

• Patriotism

• Regionalism

True or false? Three Reconstruction amendments that intended to expand rights and protections for former slaves were the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments is true.

• True

• False

• Partially true

• Not applicable

____________ was the period to rebuild the south and unify the nation following the Civil War.

• Reconstruction

• Restoration

• Reformation

• Reconciliation

Robert E. Lee signed the Confederacy’s surrender on April 9, 1865, at the ________________.

• Appomattox Court House

• Richmond

• Atlanta

• Nashville

Who gave the Gettysburg Address, a famous speech during the Civil War?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Frederick Douglass

________________ served as a spy for the Union and used her knowledge of the Underground Railroad to help them.

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• Clara Barton

True or false? Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States during the Civil War.

• True

• False

• He was the Vice President

• He was a General

What was the famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln called that honored men who fought in the Civil War?

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Bill of Rights

Jim Crow Laws

• Laws that allowed racial segregation, created by many governments in the south following the Civil War.

• Laws that promoted racial integration in public spaces.

• Laws that abolished slavery in the southern states.

• Laws that granted voting rights to all citizens regardless of race.