CIVIL WAR Quiz 2

The fifteenth amendment to the US Constitution expanded ___

• Women's rights

• Voting rights

• Railroad workers rights

• Worker's rights

Which amendment abolished slavery forever in the United States?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

What was each state returning to the Union required to do?

• Write a new constitution

• Pay back taxes

• Open seaports

• Give plantation land away

What did the fourteenth amendment guarantee in the United States?

• Right to vote to all citizens

• All laws must be approved by a majority of citizens

• Slavery would no longer be permitted

• All citizens must be treated equally under the law

Which amendment granted voting rights to all newly emancipated citizens?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

How were the Civil War’s effects on the North and South different?

• The North struggled to recover, while the South recovered quickly

• Railroads were destroyed in the North and South, both struggled to recover

• The North and South recovered quickly because of the reuniting of the country

• The South struggled to recover, while the North recovered quickly

After President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, why was the Thirteenth Amendment necessary?

• The Emancipation Proclamation had only outlawed slavery in the states that had remained loyal to the Union

• The Emancipation Proclamation did not extend the rights to African American citizens

• The Emancipation Proclamation had only outlawed slavery in states that had rebelled against the Union

• The Emancipation Proclamation did not extend the right to vote to African Americans

Which amendment granted citizenship to all formerly enslaved people?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

What was the main issue that divided the Nation and led to the Civil War?

• expansion
• women's rights
• slavery
• a treaty

What specific event started the Civil War?

• Confederate soldiers in South Carolina attacked Union solders at Fort Sumter

• The Emancipation Proclamation was issued

• The Battle of Gettysburg occurred

• Abraham Lincoln was elected President

Answer explanation

In April 1861, Confederates in South Carolina attacked Union soldiers at one of these forts, called Fort Sumter. The Confederates captured the fort. The attack at Fort Sumter began a bloody war between the Union and the Confederacy. It is called the Civil War.