U.S. Civil War and Gilded Age Test

Who was President of the United States during the Civil War?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

What was the main goal of the Union during the Civil War?

• To abolish slavery everywhere immediately

• To keep the Southern states in the Union

• To punish the South

• To spread westward

What was the Confederacy fighting to protect?

• Freedom of religion

• States’ rights and slavery

• Equality for all

• Higher taxes

Which battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Bull Run

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Shiloh

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• Freed all enslaved people in the United States

• Freed enslaved people in Confederate states

• Ended the Civil War

• Created the 13th Amendment

What was the purpose of Reconstruction?

• To rebuild the South and reunite the nation

• To expand westward

• To create new territories

• To fight Native Americans

Which laws were passed in the South to limit the freedom of African Americans after the Civil War?

• Jim Crow laws

• Black Codes

• Reconstruction Acts

• Freedmen’s Bureau laws

What group was created to help freed slaves with food, housing, and education?

• Freedmen’s Bureau

• Ku Klux Klan

• Union League

• Carpetbaggers

What were Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction often called?

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Abolitionists

• Unionists

Why were they called Carpetbaggers?

• They carried their belongings in bags made of carpet

• They worked in carpet factories

• They sold carpets in the South

• They lived in fancy houses with carpet floors