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Worksheets25 The Civil War & Reconstruciton Unit Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 4mins
Which is the period after the Civil War where Southern states were brought back into the Union and rebuilt?
Rehabilition
Reconstruction
Construction
Segregation
What is the name for laws that limited the rights and freedoms of Black Americans and helped gain workers for southern planters?
13th Amendment
Black Codes
1867 Reconstruction Act
Jim Crow Laws
Which group disliked the black codes and election of Confederates in new Southern states?
Southern Democrats
Radical Republicans
Moderate Republicans
Ku Klux Klan
What was the main goal of the Radical Republicans' plan for Reconstruction?
They wanted to admit the South back into the Union quickly.
They wanted to give more rights to Black Americans and punish former Confederates.
They wanted to require all Southerners to sign a loyalty oath.
They wanted to issue the Confederate Codes.
Which amendment ended or abolished slavery?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
1st Amendment
Which law guaranteed freedmen citizenship and equal protection under the law?
1867 Reconstruction Act
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
Which of the following laws gave Black American men the right to vote?
13th Amendmnet
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
1867 Recontruction Act
Which of the following is NOT true about sharecropping?
Landowners gave credit and supplies to farmers.
Farmers usually ended up in a cycle of debt and poverty.
Landowners receive a part or percentage of the crops from the farmer in return for use of the land.
Sharecroppers became rich from this system.
What is the name for separating different races?
Rehabilitation
Reconstruction
Construction
Segregation
What is the name for segregation laws in the South?
13th Amendment
Black Codes
1867 Reconstruction Act
Jim Crow Laws
What was the main reason the Ku Klux Klan formed?
They wanted to create a new political party to challenge the Radical Republicans.
They wanted to repeal the 13th Amendment and bring back slavery.
They wanted to take away the rights Black Americans had gained during slavery and keep whites in power in the South.
What was NOT an impact of the rise of Ku Klux Klan during and after Reconstruction?
Black Americans were afraid to vote.
Whites remained in power in the South.
Millions of Black Americans were killed.
Black Americans did not challenge Jim Crow Laws.
Which of the following was NOT a way that the South tried to limit Black American voting?
poll taxes
Jim Crow laws
grandfather clause
literacy tests
Was Reconstruction successful in guaranteeing Black American rights?
Yes
No
Which one of these is NOT a way that the South went against Reconstruction?
Sharecropping
Violence and Intimidation by Ku Klux Klan
Jim Crow Laws
Creating the Freedmen's Bureau
TRUE OR FALSE: Reconstruction did put the nation back together, but rights of Black Americans were not guaranteed.
TRUE
FALSE
What was the name for when Africans were kinapped, traded as slaves and forced move to North America or South America?
The European Trade
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
The African Route
The European Route
Work slowdown, escape and slave revolts are examples of what?
ways to support slavery
ways to support the South
ways to resist slavery
ways to support the North
Which describes the differences between the North and South before the Civil War?
The North's economy relied more on planatations and slaves.
The South's economy relied more on factories and immigrant labor.
The North succeeded or left the Union when Lincoln was elected.
The South's economy relied more on planations and slave labor.
What caused tensions to rise between the North and South before the Civil War?
building of railroads
issue of slavery in new Western states
poll taxes
cotton trade
Which compromise preserved the balance of power by admitting Maine as a free and Missouri as a slave state?
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Lousiana Purchase
Which compromise included the Fugitive Slave Law, requiring escaped enslaved people to be returned to their enslavers and brought California into the Union as a free state?
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Lousiana Purchase
What caused 7 southern states to leave the Union and form the Confederate States of America?
passage of Compromise of 1850
violence that errupted in Kansas
election of Abraham Lincoln
passage of the Fugitive Slave Law
What event in 1861 began the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
attack on Fort Sumter
Battle of Bull Run
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Who won the Civil War in 1865 when it ended ?
The South (Confederacy)
The West
There was no winner.
The North (Union)
