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25 The Civil War & Reconstruciton Unit Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which is the period after the Civil War where Southern states were brought back into the Union and rebuilt?

a)

Rehabilition

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Construction

d)

Segregation

2.

What is the name for laws that limited the rights and freedoms of Black Americans and helped gain workers for southern planters?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

Black Codes

c)

1867 Reconstruction Act

d)

Jim Crow Laws

3.

Which group disliked the black codes and election of Confederates in new Southern states?

a)

Southern Democrats

b)

Radical Republicans

c)

Moderate Republicans

d)

Ku Klux Klan

4.

What was the main goal of the Radical Republicans' plan for Reconstruction?

a)

They wanted to admit the South back into the Union quickly.

b)

They wanted to give more rights to Black Americans and punish former Confederates.

c)

They wanted to require all Southerners to sign a loyalty oath.

d)

They wanted to issue the Confederate Codes.

5.

Which amendment ended or abolished slavery?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

1st Amendment

6.

Which law guaranteed freedmen citizenship and equal protection under the law?

a)

1867 Reconstruction Act

b)

14th Amendment

c)

13th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

7.

Which of the following laws gave Black American men the right to vote?

a)

13th Amendmnet

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

1867 Recontruction Act

8.

Which of the following is NOT true about sharecropping?

a)

Landowners gave credit and supplies to farmers.

b)

Farmers usually ended up in a cycle of debt and poverty.

c)

Landowners receive a part or percentage of the crops from the farmer in return for use of the land.

d)

Sharecroppers became rich from this system.

9.

What is the name for separating different races?

a)

Rehabilitation

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Construction

d)

Segregation

10.

What is the name for segregation laws in the South?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

Black Codes

c)

1867 Reconstruction Act

d)

Jim Crow Laws

11.

What was the main reason the Ku Klux Klan formed?

a)

They wanted to create a new political party to challenge the Radical Republicans.

b)

They wanted to repeal the 13th Amendment and bring back slavery.

c)

They wanted to take away the rights Black Americans had gained during slavery and keep whites in power in the South.

12.

What was NOT an impact of the rise of Ku Klux Klan during and after Reconstruction?

a)

Black Americans were afraid to vote.

b)

Whites remained in power in the South.

c)

Millions of Black Americans were killed.

d)

Black Americans did not challenge Jim Crow Laws.

13.

Which of the following was NOT a way that the South tried to limit Black American voting?

a)

poll taxes

b)

Jim Crow laws

c)

grandfather clause

d)

literacy tests

14.

Was Reconstruction successful in guaranteeing Black American rights?

a)

Yes

b)

No

15.

Which one of these is NOT a way that the South went against Reconstruction?

a)

Sharecropping

b)

Violence and Intimidation by Ku Klux Klan

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Creating the Freedmen's Bureau

16.

TRUE OR FALSE: Reconstruction did put the nation back together, but rights of Black Americans were not guaranteed.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

17.

What was the name for when Africans were kinapped, traded as slaves and forced move to North America or South America?

a)

The European Trade

b)

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

c)

The African Route

d)

The European Route

18.

Work slowdown, escape and slave revolts are examples of what?

a)

ways to support slavery

b)

ways to support the South

c)

ways to resist slavery

d)

ways to support the North

19.

Which describes the differences between the North and South before the Civil War?

a)

The North's economy relied more on planatations and slaves.

b)

The South's economy relied more on factories and immigrant labor.

c)

The North succeeded or left the Union when Lincoln was elected.

d)

The South's economy relied more on planations and slave labor.

20.

What caused tensions to rise between the North and South before the Civil War?

a)

building of railroads

b)

issue of slavery in new Western states

c)

poll taxes

d)

cotton trade

21.

Which compromise preserved the balance of power by admitting Maine as a free and Missouri as a slave state?

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

d)

Lousiana Purchase

22.

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?

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

d)

Lousiana Purchase

23.

What caused 7 southern states to leave the Union and form the Confederate States of America?

a)

passage of Compromise of 1850

b)

violence that errupted in Kansas

c)

election of Abraham Lincoln

d)

passage of the Fugitive Slave Law

24.

What event in 1861 began the Civil War?

a)

Battle of Gettysburg

b)

attack on Fort Sumter

c)

Battle of Bull Run

d)

Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

25.

Who won the Civil War in 1865 when it ended ?

a)

The South (Confederacy)

b)

The West

c)

There was no winner.

d)

The North (Union)