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Civil War & Reconstruction

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were some of the long-term causes of the Civil War?

a)

States Right

b)

Lincoln's Election

c)

Anaconda Plan

d)

13th Amendment

2.

What was the immediate cause of the Civil War?

a)

Bull Run

b)

Atlanta

c)

Fort Sumter

d)

Appomattox

3.

What advantage did the union have?

a)

Home battle ground

b)

Rebel forces

c)

Greater Industry

d)

King Cotton

4.

What disadvantage did the South have from the North?

a)

Depends on foreign trade

b)

Greater industry

c)

Rebel Forces

d)

Unable to make weapons

5.

The Union war strategy was the Anaconda Plan.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

The Confederate war strategy was agriculture.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Select the correct order of the battles of the Civil War.

a)

Bull Run, Vicksburg, Antietam, Atlanta, Gettysburg, Appomattox.

b)

Bull Run, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Atlanta, Appomattox.

c)

Atlanta, Vicksburg, Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Appomattox.

d)

Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Atlanta, Appomattox.

8.

What importance did the battle of Gettysburg have?

a)

Turning Point

b)

1st Battle

c)

Lee Surrendered

d)

1st attempt to invade North

9.

Abraham Lincoln was the president of the Confederacy.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Who were some of the Generals of the Union

a)

Ulysses Grant

b)

Robert E Lee

c)

William Sherman

d)

Stonewall Jackson

11.

Who was the Confederate president?

a)

Robert E Lee

b)

Abaram Lincoln

c)

William Sherman

d)

Jefferson Davis

12.

One purpose of reconstruction was to readmit the southern states.

a)

False

b)

True

13.

Reconstruction ended slavery, what was one of the agencies created to protect newly freed slaves?

a)

The KKK

b)

Black Codes

c)

Lincoln's Plan

d)

Freedman's Bureau

14.

What did the 13th amendment do?

a)

Ended poverty

b)

Ended farming

c)

Ended slavery

d)

Ended human rights

15.

Which amendment gave Black men the right to vote?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

16.

Amendments 13-15 protected newly freed African Americans, which of these were created to resist reconstruction?

a)

The KKK

b)

Military Districts in the south

c)

Black Codes

d)

Lincoln's Plan

17.

What was part of the Congressional Plan?

a)

Protect Blacks

b)

50% loyalty oath

c)

Wealthy planters could regain rights by petitioning rights

d)

No ex-confederate leaders from serving in government

e)

Black Codes

18.

What Compromise ended Military Districts in the south?

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Kansas Nebraska Act

d)

Compromise of 1877

19.

The compromise of 1850 was all of these but one

a)

Brought the problem of slavery territorial back up

b)

The fugitive slave act

c)

Reconstruction of the south

d)

Start of civil war

20.

The Missouri compromise was repealed by the Kansas Nebraska act

a)

True

b)

False