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WorksheetsUnit 2 - Pre/Post Quiz
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 30mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
This was the rebuilding of the country after the Civil War?
a)
Sherman's March to the Sea
b)
Reconstruction
c)
WWI
d)
Freedmen's Bureau
2.
This amendment abolished slavery.
a)
12th
b)
13th
c)
14th
d)
15th
3.
This amendment says if you are born here you are a citizen.
a)
12th
b)
13th
c)
14th
d)
15th
4.
This amendment says all male citizens can now vote.
a)
13th
b)
15th
c)
19th
d)
23rd
5.
This group helped newly freed slaves with food, medical care, jobs, housing and schooling.
a)
Sharecropping
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
Reconstruction
d)
Freedmen's Bureau
6.
Segregation means .......
a)
separation based on race
b)
separation based on gender
c)
coming together
d)
get rid of
7.
System of farming where plantation owners would lend former slaves a place to live in exchange for farming crops
a)
Sharecropping
b)
Freedmen's Bureua
c)
Jim Crow Laws
d)
Slavery
8.
After Abraham Lincoln's assassination, who took over the presidency and continued Reconstruction?
a)
Ulysses S. Grant
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
Andrew Johnson
d)
Rutherford B. Hayes
9.
The Ku Klux Klan often resorted to violence to accomplish its goal. This violence was usually designed to:
a)
protect personal property.
b)
retaliate against previous acts of violence.
c)
intimidate the victims.
d)
prevent the spread of more violence.
10.
Following the Civil War, most of the people who became sharecroppers were:
a)
former plantation owners.
b)
former Union soldiers.
c)
former Confederate soldiers.
d)
former African slaves.
11.
At the end of a harvest, a sharecropper would usually pay a land owner:
a)
the cash that was earned when the crops were sold.
b)
a portion of the crops that were produced.
c)
nothing.
d)
all of the crops that were produced.
12.
Which of the following marked the end of Reconstruction in 1877?
a)
development of the sharecropping systems
b)
withdrawal of federal troops in the South
c)
election of a Democratic President
d)
Success of the Freedman's Bureau
13.
During Reconstruction, which of the following did the Southern states enact in order to restrict the rights of the freedmen?
a)
Slave Codes
b)
Civil Rights Laws
c)
Freedman's Bureau Bill
d)
Black Codes
14.
Toward the end of Reconstruction, most of the Southern elite:
a)
brought back the institution of slavery
b)
moved to the North and West
c)
Regained their elite status in the South
d)
lost everything they had
15.
What was Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction?
a)
a. Preserve the Union and end the Civil War as soon as possible
b)
a. Send military control to the South and punish all Confederate Veterans
c)
a. End the use of slave labor in the South and give all African Americans the right to vote
d)
a. Prolong the war to punish the South and expel the Southern states from the Union
16.
After an electoral dispute, it was agreed that Rutherford B. Hayes would become President if he ended Reconstruction. This is often referred to as:
a)
Radical Election
b)
Compromise of 1877
c)
The corrupt bargain
d)
Illegal compromise
17.
The President that Congress tried to impeach during Reconstruction was:
a)
Andrew Johnson
b)
Rutherford B. Hayes
c)
Ulysses S. Grant
d)
Thaddeus Stevens
18.
Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was known as:
a)
Wade-Davis Bill
b)
14th Amendment
c)
Ten Percent Plan
d)
Radical Republican Reunification
19.
Laws passed by southern states soon after the Compromise of 1877. These laws legalized segregation whites and blacks to use separate facilities.
a)
Jim Crow Laws
b)
Black Codes
c)
Freedman's Bureau
d)
Reconstruction
20.
Northerners who went south after the Civil War to make large profits from the destruction in the south were called
a)
Scalawags
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
Carpetbaggers
d)
Sharecroppers
21.
Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?
a)
Nathan Bedford Forrest
b)
John Wilkes Booth
c)
Henry Clay
d)
John Breckinridge
22.
Who is described in the passage above?
a)
Frederick Douglass
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Jim Crow
d)
Robert E Lee
23.
What amendment does the following cartoon represent?
a)
14th
b)
13th
c)
16th
d)
15th
24.
During Reconstruction, former Confederate generals were...
a)
required to rejoin the United States army
b)
given command of local military units
c)
forbidden to hold public office
d)
tried for treason against the United States
25.
Which quotation from this letter reveals the main reason for the surge in Irish immigration to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century?
a)
“I am exceedingly well pleased at coming to this land of plenty.”
b)
“I would advise all my friends to quit Ireland. . . .”
c)
“What you labour for is sweetened by contentment and happiness. . . .”
d)
“There is no failure in the potato crop. . . .”
26.
Mormons moved from New York to the West in the early 1830s in order to
a)
obey the Book of Mormon
b)
prosper in the fur trade
c)
seek out religious freedom
d)
gold
27.
What is the name of the region where most of the Western Expansion took place?
a)
Old West
b)
The Great Plains
c)
The Old South
d)
Wounded Knee
28.
This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere.
a)
Homestead Act
b)
Morrill Act
c)
Dawes Act
d)
Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868
29.
How would you compare Wounded Knee to the Battle of Little Bighorn?
a)
One was a massacre of innocent Native Americans
b)
The Buffalo Soldiers assisted the Native Americans in Wounded Knee
c)
Both were victories for the Native Americans
d)
None of the answers
30.
Who was the 7th U.S. cavalry commander who was killed at Little Bighorn?
a)
Geronimo
b)
Crazy Horse
c)
George Custer
d)
Chief Joseph
31.
What act gave 160 acres to any family who would linve on the land and farm it for 5 years?
a)
The Homestead Promise
b)
The Homestead Neighborhood
c)
The Homestead Act of 1862
d)
The Homestead farmland
32.
What was the name given to people who moved to the Great Plains?
a)
homesteaders
b)
great plainers
c)
farmers
d)
travelers
33.
What did many homesteaders live in?
a)
wooden houses
b)
sod houses
c)
farm houses
d)
apartments
34.
How did homesteaders buy things like furniture?
a)
They bought from malls.
b)
They made purchases from furniture stores.
c)
They purchased through mail order catalogues.
d)
They made them with their tools.
35.
What was a deadly disease that killed many children on the Great Plains?
a)
smallpox
b)
cowpox
c)
largepox
d)
yellowpox
36.
What does mechanized mean?
a)
replaced by labor
b)
replaced by animals
c)
replaced by machines
d)
replaced by workers
37.
What is cultivation?
a)
Growing crops on land
b)
Building houses on land
c)
Having a large family
d)
Working in a factory
38.
What was the nickname for the Great Plains?
a)
Great American Desert
b)
homesteaders
c)
sodbusters
d)
pioneers
39.
Who was the inventor who built a steel plow for the Great Plain's farmer?
a)
John Deere
b)
Exodusters
c)
Homesteaders
d)
Pioneers
40.
African American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains.
a)
Exodusters
b)
pioneers
c)
homesteaders
d)
sodbusters
41.
The nickname of the Great Plains farmer.
a)
Exoduster
b)
sodbuster
c)
pioneer
d)
homesteader
42.
Why did Exodusters move to the Great Plains?
a)
These Black Pioneers wanted a better life.
b)
The Mexican Pioneers wanted a farm
c)
These immigrants came from Europe
43.
Which of the following describes the Midwest?
a)
Area around the Appalachian Mts.
b)
Known for heavy mining
c)
Little agriculture
d)
Transportation hub
44.
What is the largest city in the Midwest?
a)
Chicago
b)
Cleveland
c)
Indianapolis
d)
Detroit
45.
What city in the Midwest is known as the "motor city" of America?
a)
Cleveland
b)
Minneapolis
c)
Detroit
d)
Milwaukee
46.
Which of the following is a feature of the Great Plains?
a)
Frequent rain storms
b)
Heavy snowfall
c)
Frequent dust storms
d)
Lack of grasslands
47.
Railroads, Windmills, Steel Plows and Barbed Wire can best be described as what?
a)
Native American Technology
b)
Items Used to Settle the Appalachian Mountains
c)
Life on the Great Plains
d)
Inventions and Adaptations Used to Settle the Great Plains
48.
What was the primary source of food for the Plains Indians?
a)
Buffalo
b)
Deer
c)
Corn
d)
Salmon
49.
What invention connected the east to the west?
a)
Steamboat
b)
Car
c)
Transcontinental Railroad
d)
Unicorn
50.
Assimilation can be defined as
a)
when one becomes more like the dominant culture.
b)
when a person refuses to learn the dominant culture
c)
when a culture is practice all over the world
d)
when a culture is similar to another culture
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