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Total questions: 44
Worksheet time: 24mins
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1.
What did Abraham Lincoln's 1858 warning that "a house divided against itself cannot stand" refer to?
a)
the treatment of Native American Indians
b)
the sectional differences over the issue of slavery
c)
the funding of internal improvements
d)
the treaties with other European nations
2.
How are Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Grimke sisters all similar?
a)
they all fought for the south
b)
they all were abolitionist
c)
they all supported the nullification theory of states rights
d)
they all supported the plantation system in the south
3.
What did the federal government attempt to do with the passage of both the Missouri Compromise of
1820 and the Compromise of 1850?
1820 and the Compromise of 1850?
a)
both allowed popular sovereignty
b)
both reduced the conflict over expansion of slavery
c)
they both settled border disputes with Mexico
d)
both were very harsh on slave holders
4.
What was one major result of the North's victory in the Civil War?
a)
The power of the Supreme Court was limited.
b)
Slave owners were compensated for their losses.
c)
The influence of corporations on government was reduced.
d)
The supremacy of the national government was upheld.
5.
What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution?
a)
punishing the South for seceding from the Union
b)
granting basic rights to formerly enslaved persons
c)
allowing the states to veto federal laws
d)
creating a "separate but equal" society
6.
What time period was this cartoon from?
a)
Civil War
b)
Gilded Age
c)
Reconstruction
d)
Antebellum
7.
What impact did the Election of 1876 have on the United States of America?
a)
Samuel Tilden became the first Democratic President since the Civil War.
b)
A political compromise effectively ended Reconstruction.
c)
This election marked the start of the Civil War.
d)
This election marked the end of Manifest Destiny
8.
What was the significance of the 54th Massachusetts regiment during the Civil War?
a)
The regiment defeated Union troops at Fort Sumter.
b)
The regiment defended the Mississippi River at the Battle of Vicksburg.
c)
The regiment achieved victory for the Union during the first naval battle fought between
ironclads.
ironclads.
d)
The regiment gained respect and notoriety for African American soldiers who joined the Union.
9.
Read the following list.
-Fewer textile jobs
-Jim Crow laws
-Intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan
-Depressed cotton profits
All of these led to which event?
-Fewer textile jobs
-Jim Crow laws
-Intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan
-Depressed cotton profits
All of these led to which event?
a)
the exhaustion of southern soil
b)
the industrialization of the south
c)
the migration of African Americans to the North
d)
the migration of ethnic minorities to the South
10.
What does the graphic above represent?
a)
the difficulty in transporting goods throughout the United States
b)
the Union strategy during the Civil War
c)
the problems created because the USA did not have a transcontinental railroad
d)
the superiority of southern naval armaments during the Civil War
11.
Which Civil War battle resulted in the Union gaining strategic control of the Mississippi River?
a)
Vicksburg
b)
Gettysburg
c)
Breeds Hill
d)
Okinawa
12.
What was the purpose of Black Codes during Reconstruction?
a)
The codes provided 40 acres and a mule to freedmen.
b)
The codes established educational standards for freedmen.
c)
The codes were laws meant to protect the constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves.
d)
The codes were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African
Americans economically dependent on whites.
Americans economically dependent on whites.
13.
The phrase "Bleeding Kansas" was used to describe violent clashes between which two groups?
a)
proslavery and antislavery groups
b)
Spanish landowners and new American settlers
c)
Chinese and Irish railroad workers
d)
Native Americans and white settlers
14.
Read the following quote.
“No race can prosper ‘til it learns that there is as much dignity in [plowing] a field as in writing a
poem.”
-Atlanta Compromise Speech, 1895
Whose opinion on the value of vocational training does the quote BEST represent?
“No race can prosper ‘til it learns that there is as much dignity in [plowing] a field as in writing a
poem.”
-Atlanta Compromise Speech, 1895
Whose opinion on the value of vocational training does the quote BEST represent?
a)
WEB DuBois
b)
KKK
c)
Booker T Washington
d)
Ida B Wells
15.
What effect did Uncle Tom’s Cabin and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry have on the South?
a)
White Southerners increasingly distrusted the intentions of Northerners.
b)
Southerners gained seats in the US Congress.
c)
Slavery was no longer an issue as new states were added to the Union.
d)
Abolitionists in the South were be free to help runaway slaves.
16.
Which of the following arguments did President Abraham Lincoln use against the secession of the
southern states?
southern states?
a)
Slavery was not profitable.
b)
The government was a union of people and not of states.
c)
The southern states did not permit their people to vote on secession.
d)
As the commander-in-chief, he had the duty to defend the United States against foreign
invasion.
invasion.
17.
Use the quotes below to answer the question.
"The slave holding states will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the
federal government will become their enemy...."
----SC legislature, Declaration of Causes of Secession, 1860
"The Union is older than any of these states, and, in fact, it created them as states."
--Abraham Lincoln
These quotes represent two sides in which important conflict in American history?
"The slave holding states will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the
federal government will become their enemy...."
----SC legislature, Declaration of Causes of Secession, 1860
"The Union is older than any of these states, and, in fact, it created them as states."
--Abraham Lincoln
These quotes represent two sides in which important conflict in American history?
a)
the conflict over States' rights and federal authority
b)
the conflict over what level of representation small states should have in the federal legislature
c)
the conflict over an amendment to the Constitution that would allow slavery in the territories
d)
the conflict over whether or not to forcibly remove Native Americans from their lands in the
West
West
18.
Which of the following was a major cause of early Confederate battle victories during the Civil War?
a)
industrial output
b)
foreign assistance
c)
immigrant population
d)
military leadership
19.
Which part of the Compromise of 1850 received the greatest support from southern planters?
a)
the admission of California as a free state
b)
Fugitive Slaw Act
c)
the end of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
d)
the admission of Missouri as a slave state
20.
Which of the following groups would have been MOST pleased with the Compromise of 1877?
a)
the NAACP
b)
African American politicians
c)
Northern railroad companies
d)
Democrats in the "Solid South"
21.
Which Supreme Court decision created the need for a constitutional amendment that would grant
citizenship to formerly enslaved persons?
citizenship to formerly enslaved persons?
a)
Marbury vs Madison
b)
McCulloch v. Maryland
c)
Worcester v. Georgia
d)
Dred Scott v. Sanford
22.
Which situation was the most immediate result of Abraham Lincoln's election to the
presidency in 1860?
presidency in 1860?
a)
Kansas and Nebraska joined the Union as free states.
b)
A constitutional amendment was adopted to end slavery.
c)
Missouri entered the Union as a slave state.
d)
Several Southern states seceded from the Union.
23.
Why was the Emancipation Proclamation also viewed as a diplomatic document?
a)
It made it hard for foreign nations to recognize and support the Confederacy.
b)
It warned European nations to stay out of affairs in the Western Hemisphere.
c)
It called on England and France to sell weapons to the Union army.
d)
It encouraged France to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States.
24.
Which of the following was the primary reason for secession, the Civil War, and eventually the 13th
Amendment?
Amendment?
a)
the annexation of Texas into the Union
b)
the popularity of the abolitionist movement
c)
the controversy over slavery as the nation moved west
d)
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
25.
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
a)
Fort Sumter
b)
Vicksburg
c)
Lexington and Concord
d)
Fort Wagner
26.
Which event provided for the activity depicted above?
a)
the Civil Rights movement
b)
Reconstruction in the South
c)
passage of the 15th Amendment
d)
the Plessy v. Ferguson decision
27.
Which agency was created by the United States Congress in 1865 to set up schools and churches, to
supply food and clothing, and to solve employment problems for the former slaves?
supply food and clothing, and to solve employment problems for the former slaves?
a)
The Tuskegee Institute
b)
The Freedmen's Bureau
c)
The American Missionary Association
d)
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
28.
What did Abraham Lincoln declare early in his presidency as his primary goal as president?
a)
to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation
b)
to preserve the Union
c)
to end slavery throughout the entire country
d)
to encourage sectionalism
29.
Why was General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea" important to the Union’s war effort?
a)
It placed the Mississippi River under Union control.
b)
It convinced Great Britain to stop supporting the Confederacy.
c)
Important railroad tracks were destroyed, severing supply lines for Confederate forces.
d)
Ulysses S. Grant was forced to surrender his forces as a result of Sherman's victory.
30.
Which of these is most associated with the phrase "separate but equal?"
a)
the citizenship status created by Black Codes
b)
the Supreme Court’s ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson
c)
the reasons for poll taxes and literacy tests
d)
the role of the former Confederate states after the Civil War
31.
Before the Civil War, why was the principle of popular sovereignty appealing to many
in both the North and the South?
in both the North and the South?
a)
It allowed states to secede from the Union.
b)
It permitted voters to nullify federal laws.
c)
It allowed voters to determine the legalization of slavery in new states.
d)
It permitted the overturning of unpopular decisions of the Supreme Court.
32.
What was a significant reason why Radical Republicans opposed President Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan?
a)
Lincoln's plan granted too many rights to formerly enslaved persons.
b)
Lincoln's plan demanded payments from the South that would have damaged the South's
economy
economy
c)
Lincoln's plan postponed the readmission of southern States into the Union for many years.
d)
Lincoln's plan would have allowed white southerners to quickly return to power.
33.
How did the Southern states try to limit the effects of Radical Reconstruction after 1877?
a)
by adopting federally-mandated segregation
b)
by enacting Jim Crow laws
c)
by abolishing the southern sharecropping system
d)
by securing passage of new amendments to the Constitution
34.
What was the result of the disputed presidential election of 1876?
a)
Reconstruction ended as federal troops were removed from the South.
b)
Slavery was reestablished in the South by state legislatures.
c)
New state laws were passed in the South to guarantee equal rights for African Americans.
d)
A constitutional amendment was adopted to correct problems with the electoral college
system.
system.
35.
What is the main idea of this cartoon from the Reconstruction Era?
a)
Southern society was oppressed by Radical Republican policies.
b)
Military force was necessary to stop southern secession.
c)
United States soldiers forced women in the South to work in factories.
d)
Sharecropping was an economic burden for women after the Civil War.
36.
What was the overall goal of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments?
a)
granting universal manhood suffrage
b)
upholding rights of free speech and religion
c)
decreasing the power of the federal government
d)
recognizing the basic civil liberties of African Americans
37.
Read the following list:
-Nullificaton crisis
-Kansas-Nebraska Act
-Dred Scott decision
-Election of Lincoln(1860)
Which category would best include all of these events?
-Nullificaton crisis
-Kansas-Nebraska Act
-Dred Scott decision
-Election of Lincoln(1860)
Which category would best include all of these events?
a)
foreign policy initiatives
b)
government polices toward Native Americans
c)
consequences of Manifest Destiny
d)
causes of sectional conflict
38.
In the immediate years following the Civil War, how did most freedmen earn a living?
a)
sharecropping on southern plantations
b)
gold mining in California
c)
working in northern factories
d)
conducting trains on the Underground Railroad
39.
What was considered the turning point battle of the Civil War?
a)
Gettysburg
b)
New Orleans
c)
Manassas
d)
Saratoga
40.
Which political problem incurred by the Confederacy impacted its ability to win the Civil War?
a)
The Confederacy did not have a strong central government.
b)
The Confederate president served a single six-year term.
c)
The importation of slaves was forbidden.
d)
The Confederate president's veto power provided excessive power over state legislators.
41.
Which of the following was a new Union military strategy in the last two years of the Civil War?
a)
the use of total war
b)
the use of hit-and-run tactics
c)
the use of tank warfare
d)
the use of poison gas
42.
What was the result of the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision of the Supreme Court in 1896?
a)
de facto segregation was instituted
b)
de jure segregation was instituted
c)
immediate integration was instituted
d)
gradual integration would eventually occur
43.
Which African American leader was an outspoken advocate for the NAACP and publicly denounced lynchings?
a)
Ida Wells
b)
Booker T Washington
c)
Jane Addams
d)
Sojurner Truth
44.
Which group was founded in 1909 under the leadership of W.E.B. Dubois in an effort
to combat racial discrimination, racial violence, and segregation in the United
States?
to combat racial discrimination, racial violence, and segregation in the United
States?
a)
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
b)
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
c)
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
d)
The Black Rights Coalition (BRC)
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