Civil War & Reconstruction

As part of the Compromise of 1850, which law made it possible for California to join the Union as a free state?

• FBI's Most Wanted Slave Law

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Runaway Slave Act

• Criminal Slave Law

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Which final event caused South Carolina to secede from the Union?

• Dred Scott decision

• Bleeding Kansas

• the election of Lincoln as President in 1860

• Emancipation Proclamation

Which executive order issued by President Lincoln freed slaves in the Confederate states at war with the Union?

• Liberation Proclamation

• Proclamation of Emancipation of Slaves in Rebelling States

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Emanciplation Decree

A person who works to end or get rid of something, especially slavery.

• anti-abolitionist

• abolitionist

• anarchist

• advocate

During the Civil War, women served as

• spies

• nurses

• managers of their husband's business

• all of these

Which amendments did the Confederate states have to accept and follow before rejoining the United States?

• 12, 13, 14

• 15, 16, 17

• 1, 2, 3

• 13, 14, 15

Which Supreme Court decision angered and outraged people for saying African Americans were not citizens and had no rights?

• Plessy v. Fergusen

• Brown v. the Board of Education

• Dred Scott

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

Which holiday was created on May 30, 1868 to honor and remember the soldiers who died in the Civil War?

• Veterans' Day

• Independence Day

• Labor Day

• Memorial Day

Many people opposed slavery that didn't mind it before as a result of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book called

• Uncle Tom's Cottage

• Uncle Tom's Undergournd Railroad

• Uncle Tom's Slave Quarters

• Uncle Tom's Cabin