U.S. History A Topic 11 Quiz: The Civil War and Reconstruction

Which of the following is NOT a way that women supported the war effort in both the North and the South?

• participated in battles

• raised money for the war effort

• took over management of family farms and businesses

• nursed wounded soldiers

Which group used violence to intimidate blacks and white sympathizers?

• redeemers

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedmen’s Bureau

• Radical Republicans

What was Lincoln’s main goal during and following the Civil War?

• punishing the rebel states

• paying off the debts of the war

• improving the lives of former slaves

• reunifying the country

Where did the surrender of the Confederacy happen?

• New Orleans

• Appomattox Court House

• Charleston

• Washington, D.C.

Which of the following is the main reason why states in the Deep South seceded from the Union sooner than states in the Upper South?

• Slavery was more important to people in the Deep South.

• Upper South states wanted to rejoin Great Britain.

• Mexico made Deep South states an offer to join their country.

• Deep South states felt less connected to the northern government.

What is the term for money issued by the United States during the Civil War?

• greenbacks

• cabbage

• bucks

• dough

What did southerners call a southerner who tried to overturn the changes of Reconstruction?

• redeemer

• scalawag

• carpetbagger

• white knight

Why did the House of Representatives impeach Andrew Johnson?

• He supported and voted for the Fourteenth Amendment.

• He violated the Tenure of Office Act.

• He violated the Military Reconstruction Act and removed troops from the South.

• He voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act.

Which was a goal of the Confederate States of America?

• to abolish the domestic slave trade

• to ensure that slavery would be prevented from spreading into the western territories

• to ensure that the international slave trade would be allowed to continue

• to protect slavery from any effort to abolish it

Which was NOT a provision of the Crittenden Compromise?

• that Congress would be prohibited from abolishing slavery where it already existed

• that the interstate slave trade would be allowed to continue

• that the 36°30′ line from the Missouri Compromise would be restored and extended

• that the Five Civilized Tribes would be admitted into the Confederacy