WorksheetsCivil War and Reconstruction
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What was Reconstruction
a)
Rebuilding the school after it was torn down.
b)
Rebuilding the South after the Civil War
c)
Using heavy equipment to build buildings in downtown Chicago
d)
Rebuilding the cities of the North after the Civil War
2.
What did the 15th amendment do?
a)
It gave women the right to vote
b)
It guaranteed African Americans the right to hold public offices
c)
It gave African American men the right to vote
d)
It made all blacks US citizens
3.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
a)
A club where African Americans could hang out
b)
A newspaper for African Americans
c)
An organization to keep African Americans from being free
d)
An organization that taught freed slaves and poor whites new job skills and taught them to read and write
4.
What was segregation?
a)
Separation of Northerners from Southerners
b)
Separation of Republicans and Democrats in the South
c)
Blacks and whites were separated in all public places
d)
Separate seating for boys and girls in the CMS lunch room
5.
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
a)
Laws that all crows in the South must be named Jim
b)
Laws to keep blacks and white separate in public places
c)
Laws that helped African Americans get equal rights
d)
Laws that ensured all blacks would be treated equally to whites
6.
What did the 13th Amendment do?
a)
It made slavery illegal everyone in the United States
b)
It admitted the Southern states back into the union.
c)
It punished the Northern states for starting the Civil War.
d)
It provided free seats on any bus to African Americans.
7.
What did the 14th Amendment do?
a)
It outlawed slavery in every state in the union.
b)
It allows Congress to impeach a president.
c)
It gave women the right to vote
d)
It made everyone born in the US a citizen of the US and required laws to be applied equally to all US citizens.
8.
Who was Hiram Revels?
a)
One of the freedom riders
b)
A bus driver who refused to give up his seat to a white woman
c)
He was the first African American elected to the US senate
d)
A famous African American dancer
9.
Who were the Carpetbaggers?
a)
Northerners who went to the South carrying suitcases made of carpet who wanted to help blacks and/or make money on the Reconstruction of the South
b)
People who carry carry carpets in a bag
c)
People who installed carpet for Southerners
d)
Southerners who went to the North to profit from Reconstruction
10.
Who were the Scalawags?
a)
Naughty children
b)
Pirates
c)
White Southern Republicans who worked to enforce Reconstruction
d)
Northern Democrats
11.
What is Civil Disobedience?
a)
Using violence and terror to get your point across
b)
Disobeying the law by holding boycotts, marches, sit-ins, and freedom rides in order to make a point
c)
A book written by Abraham Lincoln
d)
A book written by the Freedom Riders
12.
What was the bloodiest battle in the Civil War?
a)
Antietam
b)
Gettysburg
c)
The battle of Shilo
d)
D Day
13.
Who was the president when the civil war took place
a)
John Whikes Booth
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Mrs. Fullen
d)
Ms. Woods
14.
Who shot president Lincoln
a)
Andrew Johnson
b)
John Wilkes Booth
c)
Ms. Fullen
15.
What are black codes
a)
Codes that look black
b)
Laws that limit rights to African Americans
16.
In the early 1800's, some Americans believed that a state could refuse to enforce a federal law. What was this belief known as?
a)
absolution
b)
nullification
c)
justification
d)
retification
17.
Which statement best explains the Missouri Compromise?
a)
It required captured slaves to be returned to slave states
b)
It allowed slavery in Maine, but not Missouri
c)
Missouri could have slavery
d)
It maintained a balance of power between slave and free states
18.
According to the terms of the Compromise of 1850,
a)
California was a slave state
b)
California was a free state
c)
Texas claimed New Mexico and extended slavery in that territory
d)
slave trade continued in the Disctrict of Columbia
19.
Which is the BEST statement that explains why the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Dred Scott in the Dred Scott decision?
a)
He returned to a slave state and could not be free.
b)
He did not live long enough in a free territory to be considered free.
c)
Scott was a slave and he was not eligible to sue in court.
d)
He was property of his owner and could be taken anywhere.
20.
Which of the following was a Confederate advantage in the war?
a)
More miles of railroad track
b)
Greater number of factories
c)
Defending their homeland
d)
Larger population
21.
What did the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do?
a)
It abolished slavery
b)
It gave African American males full citizenship rights
c)
It gave African American males the right to vote
d)
It gave African Americans the right to own property
22.
Cotton production ________________ as the slave population __________________
a)
increased & increased
b)
decreased & decreased
c)
increased & decreased
d)
decreased & increased
23.
In the Kansas-Nebraska Act ______________ was used to decide the slavery issue.
a)
voting (popular sovereignty)
b)
states' rights
c)
Fugitive Slave Law
d)
secession
24.
The Civil War began at?
a)
Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
b)
Shiloh, Tennessee
c)
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
25.
Lee surrendered to Grant ending the Civil War at?
a)
Washington DC
b)
Fort Sumter, SC
c)
Appomattox Courthouse, VA
26.
The time period following the Civil War is known as?
a)
peace time
b)
rest time
c)
Reconstruction
27.
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
a)
Jefferson Davis
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Ulysses S. Grant
28.
Who was the military general of the Confederacy?
a)
Jefferson Davis
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Ulysses S. Grant
29.
Who was the military general of the Union who helped the North win the war?
a)
Jefferson Davis
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Ulysses S. Grant
30.
What economic system replaces slavery during Reconstruction keeping African-Americans in poverty and debt?
a)
Sharecropping
b)
40 Acres and a Mule
c)
Free Enterprise
d)
Plantation Farming
31.
What was the name of the terrorist group that drove African-Americans out of political control during and after Reconstruction?
a)
Al Qaeda
b)
Klu Klux Klan
c)
Nazis
d)
Sons of the Confederacy
32.
To withdraw from something, such as a nation
a)
blockade
b)
amend
c)
ratify
d)
secede
33.
A person who wanted to end slavery
a)
Confederate
b)
sharecropper
c)
vigilante
d)
abolitionist
34.
A Civil War is...
a)
a battle between people from the same country
b)
a domestic dispute
c)
a war between people from the same country
d)
a war between civilians
35.
The 14th Amendment was a major achievement of the Reconstruction Era. It forbids states from depriving people of liberty without due process and requires states to afford everyone the:
a)
right to a farm
b)
guarantee of health care
c)
equal protection of the law
d)
guarantee of a good education
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