Topic 5.7-5.11 Quiz Version B

Which of the following is NOT part of the three-part strategy for winning the war for the Union?

• Take control of the Mississippi River

• Convince Britain to provide military support

• Use the navy to blockade southern ports

• Raise and train an army 500,000 strong

This 3 day battle was the bloodiest of the war and was the last offensive move by the Confederates in July of 1863.

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Bull Run

• Vicksburg

This act promoted settlement of the Great Plains by offering parcels of 160 acres of public land free to any person that farmed that land for at least five years.

• The Land Act

• Morrill Tariff Act

• The Morrill Land Grant Act

• The Homestead Act

As part of Lincoln’s Amnesty and Reconstruction plan, a state could reenter the Union as soon as ___ percent of voters in that state took a loyalty pledge.

• 80

• 50

• 20

• 10

The Freedmen’s Bureau’s greatest success was in the area of

• Housing

• Education

• Civil rights

• Employment

Which amendment did Plessy v Ferguson say allowed segregation?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

What drastic step did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 take?

• Set up schools in the South for African Americans

• Put the South under military occupation

• Disqualified Confederate political leaders from holding either state or federal offices

• Gave African Americans full voting rights in the South

What was the nickname created by Democrats and given to Northerners who went south after the war?

• Scalawags

• Rascals

• Carpetbaggers

• Scamp

What ended the military occupation of the south and effectively ended Reconstruction?

• Compromise of 1877

• Amnesty Act of 1872

• Civil Rights Act of 1875

• 14th Amendment

What document is Lincoln taking us back to (Four score and seven years ago) when he says that the Civil War is testing whether a nation “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...can long endure”?

• Mayflower Compact

• Declaration of Independence

• Bill of Rights

• Emancipation Proclamation