Civil War and Reconstruction Review

What was the primary economic difference between the North and South before the Civil War?

• The North relied on slave labor while the South was industrialized

• The North was industrialized while the South relied on an agrarian, slave-based economy

• Both regions had equally developed industrial economies

• The South had more factories than the North

What was the name of the 1820 agreement that attempted to balance the number of slave and free states in the Union?

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Northwest Ordinance

Which Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were not citizens and had no right to sue in federal court?

• Marbury v. Madison

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Plessy v. Ferguson

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 12th Amendment

What was the Freedmen's Bureau?

• A Southern organization created to limit the rights of formerly enslaved people

• A federal agency established to assist formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South after the Civil War

• A political party formed by formerly enslaved people during Reconstruction

• A bureau created to manage Confederate war debts

Which constitutional amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States?

• 13th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

What were the Black Codes?

• Laws passed by Northern states to prevent formerly enslaved people from migrating north

• Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the rights and freedoms of Black Americans

• Federal laws designed to protect the civil rights of formerly enslaved people

• Codes of conduct established by the Freedmen's Bureau

Which amendment granted Black American men the right to vote?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

Using your knowledge of Reconstruction-era policies, analyze how the Black Codes passed by Southern states undermined the goals of Reconstruction. What does this reveal about the challenges of enforcing federal policy at the state level?

• The Black Codes supported Reconstruction goals by creating a structured labor system that benefited formerly enslaved people

• The Black Codes had no real impact on Reconstruction because federal troops enforced equal rights throughout the South

• The Black Codes effectively reversed many freedoms granted to formerly enslaved people, demonstrating that Southern states used legal mechanisms to resist federal Reconstruction goals and maintain racial hierarchies

• The Black Codes only affected voting rights and had no broader impact on the social or economic conditions of formerly enslaved people

Evaluate the role of sectionalism as a cause of the Civil War. Which of the following best explains how economic and political differences between the North and South made conflict increasingly inevitable by 1860?

• The North and South had identical economic interests, and the Civil War was caused solely by disagreements over tariff policies

• The growing economic dependence of the South on slavery, combined with Northern industrialization and political opposition to the expansion of slavery into new territories, created irreconcilable sectional tensions that political compromises could no longer contain

• The Civil War was primarily caused by the personal ambitions of Abraham Lincoln, who deliberately provoked Southern states into secession

• Sectionalism played a minor role, and the Civil War was mainly the result of foreign interference in American domestic affairs