WorksheetsCivil War & Reconstruction Review (Ms. Yearwood)
Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 24mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What happened to slavery as states grew more cotton?
a)
The slaves were free
b)
There was a need for more slaves because there was more work
c)
The slaves took all of the cotton and sold it to make money for themselves
d)
They needed slaves to go to the North
2.
What was Nat Turner's rebellion?
a)
When the slave owners attacked the slaves in a big rebellion
b)
When slavery became illegal
c)
When Nat Turner got people to get more slaves
d)
When Nat Turner led a group of slaves to attack their slave owners and escape to freedom
3.
What were the results of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
a)
Kansas and Nebraska became free states
b)
Kansas and Nebraska became slave states
c)
It gave popular sovereignty to the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
4.
What is popular sovereignty?
a)
When people have the right to make political decisions (such as whether or not they are a slave or free state) for themselves.
b)
The most popular person gets to make all of the decisions.
c)
When only the popular people in the state get to cast a vote
d)
When African American votes only counted as 3/5 of a total vote
5.
What was the Missouri compromise?
a)
When Missouri got kicked out of the Union
b)
When Missouri decided to join the Union
c)
When Missouri and Maine were made states as long as Maine became a free state and Missouri became a slave state
d)
When Kansas and Nebraska became states.
6.
What caused the growth of slavery?
a)
The cotton gin was invented so southern farmers wanted more enslaved people to work in their fields
b)
Abraham Lincoln was elected president
c)
They needed more people in factories because of the war
d)
Slaves were now getting treated nicely
7.
Which region was in support of slavery?
a)
The North
b)
The South
8.
What was the economy like in the North?
a)
Agricultural
b)
Plantations
c)
Textiles, steel, industrial goods
d)
Farm animals
9.
A tariff is...
a)
what you have to pay to become a U.S. citizen
b)
a tax you have to pay when you vote
c)
a tax on domestic goods
d)
a tax on imported goods from other countries
10.
Why was the North in support of tariffs?
a)
Because they were mainly British people
b)
Because they didn't need any goods or services
c)
Because they could make their own goods and did not need to import goods from other countries
d)
Because they were rich and didn't mind paying taxes
11.
What are states' rights?
a)
The idea that states, not the federal government, can make the final decisions about matters in that state
b)
The idea that the federal government, not the states, can make final decisions about matters in that state
12.
True or false:
An abolitionist is someone who supports slavery
a)
True
b)
False
13.
William Lloyd Garrison is an abolitionist who wrote a newspaper called...
a)
They AJC
b)
The New York Times
c)
The Liberator
d)
The Freedom Riders
14.
Who is famous for helping out on the Underground Railroad?
a)
The man who created railroad tracks
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Sojourner Turth
d)
William Lloyd Garrison
15.
Slave states were in the...
a)
South
b)
North
16.
What was the fugitive slave law?
a)
It meant that if you were already in jail you automatically became a slave
b)
No fugitives could be slaves
c)
All slaves were considered fugitives
d)
If you escaped slavery you were required by law to be returned to your owner
17.
What was Dred Scott famous for?
a)
A court case that ended segregation in schools
b)
A court case that said if you escape from slavery then you are automatically free
c)
A court case that desegregated bus systems
d)
A court case that said that slaves were considered property and that living in a free state didn't make them citizens.
18.
Where did John Brown's slave raid on a U.S. army post take place?
a)
Harper's Ferry
b)
Pearl Harbor
c)
Long Island
d)
Angel Island
19.
What is it called when a part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest of the country?
a)
Suffrage
b)
An exit
c)
Secession
d)
Popular Soverignty
20.
Who was the most famous president during the Civil War?
a)
John F. Kennedy
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Richard Nixon
d)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
21.
Why was the election of 1812 so important?
a)
Because Abraham Lincoln won without winning a single southern state
b)
Because John Breckinridge won without winning a single southern state
c)
Because Abraham Lincoln won without winning a single northern state
d)
Because nobody liked Abraham Lincoln
22.
The Confederacy was another name for which part of the country?
a)
north
b)
south
c)
east
d)
west
23.
The Union was another name for which part of the country?
a)
south
b)
north
c)
west
d)
east
24.
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
George Washington
c)
Jefferson Davis
d)
Thomas Jefferson
25.
What is considered the beginning of the Civil War?
a)
When Abraham Lincoln was assasinated
b)
The attack on Pearl Harbor
c)
When the confederates attacked Fort Sumpter for 34 hours straight
26.
What is a military draft?
a)
When the government selects people to serve in the military
b)
When only volunteers can serve in the military
c)
When there is a huge gust of wind and the military falls apart
d)
The beginning of the Dust Bowl
27.
Why was the battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi an important victory for the Union?
a)
Because this is where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
b)
Because this was the end of the war
c)
Because they got control of the Mississippi River which was a major transportation route for the Confederacy
28.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
a)
A very important military leader for the Confederacy
b)
A very important military leader for the Union
29.
Why was Ulysses S. Grant important?
a)
He was an important military leader for the Union
b)
He was an important military leader for the Confederacy
30.
What was the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation?
a)
It freed slaves in the Confederacy
b)
It ended segregation
c)
It made slavery legal all over the U.S.
d)
It was a book written by MLK Jr. while he was in jail
31.
What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
a)
Bull Run
b)
Ft. Sumter
c)
Vicksburg
d)
Antietam
32.
Who won the Civil War?
a)
The Confederacy
b)
The Union
c)
The East
d)
The West
33.
Who led the Atlanta Campaign that destroyed much of Atlanta and other parts of Georgia?
a)
William T. Sherman
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
Eisenhower
d)
Abraham Lincoln
34.
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant?
a)
Washington D.C.
b)
Harper's Ferry
c)
Ellis Island
d)
The Appomattox Court House
35.
What was Reconstruction?
a)
The time period where the U.S. rebuilt itself after the Civil War
b)
When all of the southern states left the Union
c)
When big businesses became popular
36.
What was Lincoln's plan for reconstruction?
a)
To bring the Confederacy back into the Union peacefully and quickly
b)
To ban the Confederacy from coming back into the Union.
c)
To make all states slave states
d)
He never had a plan
37.
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
a)
John Wilkes Booth
b)
John Lennon
c)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
d)
William T. Sherman
38.
True or False:
Black Codes helped the slaves get their rights restroed
a)
True
b)
False
39.
What did the Freedmen's Bureau do?
a)
Helped the Union only after the Civil War
b)
An organization of countries who wanted to create world peace
c)
Provided food, clothing, shelter, medical care to poor African Americans after the Civil War
40.
What are carpetbaggers known for?
a)
People from the north who traveled south to help out during reconstruction
b)
People who made carpet bags
41.
The thirteenth amendment states...
a)
citizens rights cannot be violated in any state
b)
slavery is not allowed to exist
c)
women can vote
d)
all men can vote
42.
The fourteenth amendment states...
a)
that the states could not limit the rights of citizens
b)
That slavery was over
c)
that women could vote
d)
that segregation was illegal
43.
The fifteenth amendment states...
a)
all men, no matter the color of their skin, could vote
b)
all women can vote
c)
we have the right to bear arms
d)
we have the right to speak our minds
44.
What is sharecropping?
a)
When the slaves stole all of the crops from the plantation owners
b)
When poor farmers used a landowner's fields in return for a share of the crop and a place to live
c)
When everyone shared their crops because everyone was so wealthy
d)
When there was a famine because we refused to share our crops
45.
What were Jim Crow laws?
a)
Laws that made slavery legal
b)
Laws that made people pay taxes on imported goods
c)
Laws that made it illegal to secede from the Union
d)
Laws that kept African Americans separate from other Americans after the Civil War
46.
Who opened the Tuskegee Institute, the African American college?
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
Dred Scott
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Robert E. Lee
47.
What is George Washington Carver famous for?
a)
Inventions involving peanuts
b)
Creating the telephone
c)
Being the first president of the U.S.
d)
Inventing the car
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