WorksheetsThe Civil War & Reconstruction Test
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 19mins
What was the major type of labor used on Georgia’s plantations before the Civil War?
Indentured servitude
Hourly wage labor
Sharecropping
Slavery
The purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to
Return slaves captured in free states to slave states
Allow slavery in Maine, but not Missouri
Maintain a balance of free states and slave states
Let Missouri have slavery until 1850
The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act was to:
Require slaves to have citizenship papers in order to have jobs
Prevent slaves from testifying against whites in court trials
Require slaves that had run away to go back to their owners
Prevent slaves from having group gatherings or meetings
Why did the US Supreme Court rule against Dred Scott?
Because he was the property of his owner and could be taken anywhere
Because he did not live long enough in a free territory to be free
Because Scott was a slave and he was not eligible to sue in court
Because he was returned to a slave state and could not be freed
Which of the following ended slavery in the United States?
The Emancipation Proclamation
Radical Reconstruction
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment
Shortly after Lincoln’s election, Georgia:
Remained loyal to the Union
Seceded from the Union
Abolished slavery to avoid war
Seceded from the Confederacy
The main purpose of General Sherman's "March to the Sea" in 1864 was to
Convince France and Britain to get out of the war.
Capture the important railroad depot at Charleston.
Permanently destroy Georgia's ability to produce cotton.
Delete the South's strategic and economic capacity to fight.
Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" dealt with
His idea for instituting an income tax.
How to draft more men into the Union Army.
Re-admitting Southern states into the Union.
His quest to reconquer only 10% of the South.
General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea" was important to the Union war effort because
It placed the Mississippi River under Union control.
It convinced Great Britain to stop supporting the Confederacy.
Important railroad tracks were destroyed, severing supply lines for Confederate forces.
Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender his forces as a direct result of Sherman's victory.
During Reconstruction, the Black Codes
Protected the Constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves.
Forced Congress to do the bidding of former Confederate politicians.
Were enacted by the Radical Republicans to prevent racial discrimination in the South.
Were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans in a system of virtual slavery.
What is the name of the labor system that developed throughout the South after the Civil War kept poor Blacks and white working in agriculture?
Antebellum
Indenturing
Convict lease system
Sharecropping
The MAIN purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to
Help slaves adjust to their newfound freedom.
Battle terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
Serve as a voice for freed slaves in Congress.
Establish black codes to limit freed slaves’ rights.
How did the Dred Scott v. Sanford US Supreme Court case intensify the fight for abolition?
The high court ruled in favor of Sanford under the condition that he will free Dred Scott upon his death.
The high court ruled in favor of Dred Scott granting him freedom; thus persuading society that slaves have rights.
The high court ruled the issue of slave rights is a reserved power and thus the states solely have authority to grant rights to slaves.
The high court ruled slaves are property and therefore have no rights; thus strengthening the fight for abolition.
The term "Reconstruction" in United States history refers to the period after what event?
The Civil War
The Revolutionary War
The Constitutional Convention
The Declaration of Independence
Which issue played the GREATEST role in dividing the North and South in the years leading up to the Civil War?
Slavery
Foreign trade
Indian removal
War with Mexico
Which is the BEST description of the goals of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction?
The Ku Klux Klan worked in communities to help rebuild churches, libraries, and schools.
The Ku Klux Klan worked with the "carpetbaggers" and the "scalawags" to end segregation.
The Ku Klux Klan worked to help Civil War veterans adjust to life after the war by helping them find jobs and housing.
The Ku Klux Klan worked to prevent African Americans from exercising their newly found rights and wanted whites to regain control of local governments.
The American Civil War ended in what year?
1857
1861
1865
1877
What did the 14th Amendment do?
What did the 15th Amendment do?
What was the 13th Amendment?
