Civil War and Reconstruction EOC Item Brochures

What was the Ku Klux Klan? The Ku Klux Klan was a terrorist group that used violence to suppress the newly acquired rights of ________ people and oppose carpetbaggers from the North.

• black

• white

• Asian

• Native American

What did the Ostend Manifesto (1854) describe? The Ostend Manifesto (1854) described the rationale for the United States to purchase ______ from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused.

• Cuba

• Puerto Rico

• The Philippines

• Jamaica

Who were the Radical Republicans? Radical Republicans were members of a political party that believed that the South should be punished and that ________ Americans should be granted full equality.

• African

• Native

• Asian

• European

What is a reservation system? A reservation system was when an Indian tribe settled with the U.S. government, they were given 'reserved' land and signed a ________.

• treaty

• contract

• bill

• agreement

What is sharecropping? Sharecropping is a system in which laborers were allowed to use land in return for a certain share in the ______ produced.

• crops

• money

• tools

• livestock

What are state's rights? State's rights describes the ongoing struggle over political power in the United States between the federal government and ______ states.

• individual

• federal

• foreign

• colonial

What happened at Vicksburg during the Civil War? Fill in the blank: The Union laid siege on Vicksburg for 6 weeks until the city surrendered. This Union win split the Confederacy into two, accomplishing the ______ Plan.

• Anaconda

• Eagle

• Liberty

• Freedom

What was African American Migration during Reconstruction? During Reconstruction, freed slaves began to leave the South to cities in the ______, Midwest and Southwest.

• Northeast

• Southeast

• Northwest

• West

What were the Black Codes? The Black Codes were created immediately following the Civil War. They restored the previous system of race relations and guaranteed a stable labor supply. It forced many blacks into the ______ system.

• sharecropping

• apprenticeship

• tenant farming

• indentured servitude

Which of the following was NOT a goal of the Anaconda Plan?

• Blockade Southern ports on the Atlantic

• Control the Mississippi with Union gunboats

• Encourage the Confederacy to expand westward

• Cut off flow of supplies, equipment, money, food, and cotton